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Fastame, Maria Chiara – School Psychology International, 2020
This review is intended to point out the role played by motor skills proficiency in the academic achievement of typically and atypically developing pupils who are attending primary school. First, the interplay between motor and cognitive development will be presented. Next, the cognitive phenotype, not yet deeply investigated, of a…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Motor Development
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Leinwand, Steve; Fleischman, Steve – Educational Leadership, 2004
The practices emphasizing learning, reasoning and achieving the solutions in mathematics helps the students to develop their own understanding of the content. The development and understanding concepts of learning mathematics in elementary and middle schools in United States are discussed.
Descriptors: Mathematics, Learning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Danner, Fred W.; Taylor, Arthur M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Examines the hypothesis that first, third, and sixth graders' recall of noun triplets would be facilitated by using (1) related pictures of nouns, (2) training in imagining relations between separate pictures of nouns, and (3) a combination of these two processes. (DP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Imagery, Learning
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Rydberg, Sven; Arnberg, Peter W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
In a reviewed series of spontaneous and learning-set studies of adults and children, adults solved problems even if they attended to four dimensions; young children failed when attending so broadly, but solved when attending to a single dimension. (Author/HS)
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development
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Erickson, Gaalen L. – Science Education, 1979
Describes the use of interviews with children ranging in age from 6 to 13 to identify patterns of children's beliefs in the area of heat and temperature. Also discusses how this knowledge might be used in an instructional setting. (HM)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Educational Psychology
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Raven, Ronald J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1974
Describes research studies stimulated by the concern for facilitation of logical operations in elementary school and junior high school children and based on the assumption that the level of reasoning used for inquiry and concept acquisition by every individual is substantially below his capacity. (PEB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Research
Thiel, Robert Patrick – 1973
The two purposes of this study were: (1) to identify those factors that significantly affect the use of the science process skill of prediction, and (2) to construct and test a probabilistic equation, based on a competence-performance model of cognitive development that accounts for a child's performance on tasks involving the skill of prediction.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary School Science
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Wittrock, M. C. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Examines the relationship between the development of cognitive processes and the effects of instruction on learning and transfer. The study suggests that instructional treatments should be designed in relation to the child's developing information processing strategies and his previous experience. Subjects were 482 fourth- and fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students
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Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Eighty-two children (aged 4 through 6) were administered a Backward Digit Span test to measure M-space (mental capacity) and four conservation tasks: number, substance, continuous quantity and weight. (MS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
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Valencia, Atilano A. – 1974
Providing relevant data, analyses, and observations, with particular reference to the cognitive and affective development of bilingual children, the 1973-74 Grants Bilingual-Bicultural Program evaluation determined the personnel's attitudes and perceptions about program components and operations and the children's responses to bilingual-bicultural…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Biculturalism
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Brainerd, C. J.; Reyna, V. F. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Two experiments used causal models to examine possible relationships among age, learning rates, learning opportunities and forgetting rates. Found that forgetting rates declined markedly between early and late childhood. (ET)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Causal Models, Children, Cognitive Development
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Silva, Liliana, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 26 to 28 of April. Our efforts and active engagement can now be rewarded with these three days of exciting new developments about what we are passionate about: Psychology and its connections. We take pride…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychoeducational Methods, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
Henderson, Ronald W.; Swanson, Rosemary – 1973
Thirty mothers of first-grade Papago Indian children were trained by selected Papago paraprofessionals to teach their children to ask causal questions. The procedures used by the mother in the home environment included role playing, modeling and giving the child verbal praise. Between formal training sessions with the paraprofessionals, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Davidson, Philip M. – 1992
Because earlier research suggests that children's and adolescents' achievement motivation is mediated by their implicit beliefs and theories about schooling, 70 students (half girls and half boys) in a middle class suburban school district in grades 3 through 12 were interviewed about several dimensions of knowledge about education, including…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
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Cannella, Gaile S. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1992
Effects of gender and disagreements on learning during sociocognitive interaction were investigated with 33 pairs of children between 5 and 7 years old (34 males and 32 females) using spatial perspective-taking tasks. Disagreements during social interaction can facilitate or inhibit learning. Effects of gender pairing are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Chinese Americans, Cognitive Development, Conflict