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Keane, Lainey; Griffin, Claire P. – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
Self-assessment practices have been advocated in recent Irish educational documents due to their potential to enhance school children's learning and self-regulatory skills. However, the literature has highlighted how some children struggle to make accurate self-assessments of their academic work, which diminishes such positive effects (Keane and…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Prior Learning, Age Differences, Evaluation Problems
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Geary, David C.; vanMarle, Kristy – Developmental Psychology, 2016
At the beginning of preschool (M = 46 months of age), 197 (94 boys) children were administered tasks that assessed a suite of nonsymbolic and symbolic quantitative competencies as well as their executive functions, verbal and nonverbal intelligence, preliteracy skills, and their parents' education level. The children's mathematics achievement was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education
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McCormack, Lorraine; Finlayson, Odilla E.; McCloughlin, Thomas J. J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
In the Irish education system, there is little continuity between the primary and secondary education systems. The transfer between these systems is particularly problematic in the area of science. In order to alleviate some of these problems, as well as to enhance the cognitive development of students, the Cognitive Acceleration through Science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Watts, Walter J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1985
To assess Feuerstein's Learning Potential Assessment Device's (LPAD) ability to identify deficient cognitive functions, Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices were administered to 176 elementary/junior high students--25 percent were rescored--and 12 complete LPAD reports from a university educational clinic were reanalyzed. Correlations were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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Chletsos, Peter N.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1989
This article presents evidence of the reliability and validity of a new paper-and-pencil test of proportional reasoning, Paper-and-Pencil Balance Beam Test. A Total of 627 individuals, aged 8-47, participated in the 3 studies discussed. Results support previous research which correlates performance on proportional reasoning problems with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Formal Operations
Powell, J. C. – 1979
The educational significance of wrong answers on multiple choice tests was investigated in over 4,000 subjects, aged 7 to 20. Gorham's Proverbs Test--which requires the interpretation of a proverb sentence--was administered and repeated five months later. Four questions were addressed: (1) what can the pattern of answer choice, across age, using…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Simon, Martin A.; Schifter, Deborah – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Discusses changes in student attitudes, beliefs, behavior, and the nature and quality of mathematics activity in the classroom resulting from a constructivist-oriented inservice program for teachers (K-12). Although instruction focused more on conceptual understanding, student scores on standardized tests were maintained. Appendix includes…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Students