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Peer reviewedForrester, Michael A.; And Others – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents results of a study of the role of context upon English children's estimation skills. Includes estimation tasks involving distance, area, and volume measurements and children's answers about how they carried out the tasks. Concludes that estimates in contexts perceived as mathematical differed from those involving perceptual-motor skills.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMeulenbroek, Ruud G. J.; Van Galen, Gerard P. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990
Seventy-five Dutch elementary school students wrote letters of a cursive alphabet after presentation of printed and cursive letters. Analysis revealed that spatial ambiguity, allographic variability, contextual ambiguity, and letter frequency are determinants of the time needed by children for perceiving printed and producing corresponding cursive…
Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Cursive Writing, Elementary Education
