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Milorad Cerovac; Therese Keane – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2025
Piaget's theory of stage structure is synonymous with discussions involving cognitive development. As with any theoretical model, researchers inevitably and rightly seek to affirm and/or contest the elements of the model presented. In this comparative study, students' performance across three hands-on engineering tasks for two distinct student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Piagetian Theory, Developmental Tasks
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Mairon, Noam; Abramson, Lior; Knafo-Noam, Ariel; Perry, Anat; Nahum, Mor – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Empathy and executive functions (EFs) are multimodal constructs that enable individuals to cope with their environment. Both abilities develop throughout childhood and are known to contribute to social behavior and academic performance in young adolescents. Notably, mentalizing and EF activate shared frontotemporal brain areas, which in previous…
Descriptors: Empathy, Correlation, Twins, Longitudinal Studies
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Watanabe, Nobuki – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2021
Conservation and executive function (EF) are important early childhood skills; however, knowledge about their relationship is scarce. Hence, in this study, this relationship is investigated, and a comparison is conducted between the Piagetian conservation and EF tasks to obtain the total hemoglobin (mMmm) for the left and right brain activity in…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Piagetian Theory, Developmental Stages, Conservation (Concept)
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Dang, Xixi; Yang, Chunliang; Che, Mengying; Chen, Yinghe; Yu, Xiao – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Testing of previously studied information potentiates subsequent learning of new information, a phenomenon referred to as the "forward testing effect" (FTE). The current study aimed to investigate the developmental trajectory of the FTE and whether the reset-of-encoding process contributes to the FTE. Younger children, older children,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development, Adults
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Paul Galbally; Fevronia Christodoulidi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This paper discusses the significance of personalised learning pedagogies in relation to developing new professional identities whilst pursuing a degree and facilitating student progression and retention. The data derived from conducting a case study focusing on culturally diverse cohorts of students completing a BSc (Hons) Counselling…
Descriptors: Universities, Counselor Training, Individualized Instruction, School Holding Power
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Breit, Moritz; Brunner, Martin; Preckel, Franzis – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Differentiation hypotheses concern changes in the structural organization of cognitive abilities that depend on the level of general intelligence (ability differentiation) or age (developmental differentiation). Part 1 of this article presents a review of the literature on ability and developmental differentiation effects in children, revealing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary School Students
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
First-order and advanced theory of mind (ToM and AToM), and their structures and relations were investigated in 229 children aged 5-8 years. ToM was assessed using 6 tasks from the first-order ToM scale, while AToM was measured using an 18-item battery (higher-order false-belief understanding; strange stories; faux pas test; eyes test;…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Kindergarten, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
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Al-Onizat, Sabah Hasan Hamdan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of an educational program in improving the level of knowledge of parents about natural growth indicators in the development of children and determining the indicators which delay development in children from birth to three years old. The sample of the study consisted of 60 volunteers who…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Child Development, Developmental Delays, Young Children
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Mukunthan, Thevarasa – International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 2016
The present study was conducted mainly to investigate the applicability of children's conception space presented in Piaget's Cognitive Development theory to Sri Lankan children. The study attempted to identify whether there were variations in Sri Lankan children's conception of space according to the sectors i.e. urban, rural and estate, they live…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Place of Residence
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Kuisma, Merja; Nokelainen, Petri – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Adolescents need skills to acquire information and compare, analyze, transform, and experiment with knowledge. However, little research has been conducted on the content and pedagogical practices that are necessary to achieve these skills. This article seeks to contribute to this discussion because geography enables the attainment of the so-called…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits, Teaching Methods
Garvis, Susanne; Phillipson, Sivanes; Clarke, Sharryn; Harrison, Linda; McCormack, Jane; Pendergast, Donna – Oxford University Press, 2018
"Child Development and Learning" integrates concepts of learning and development into one comprehensive text for understanding child development. At its core is the belief that learning and development are intertwined. As children learn, they also develop. As children develop, they also learn. With an understanding of how children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Developmental Stages
Olga Temple; Syeda Sana Fatima – Online Submission, 2018
This paper is a follow-up on our 2017 study of the effect of Age of Onset of learning English (AO) on the academic performance of University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) students in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS). It investigates the relationship between three factors in the students' Early Language Education {Age of Onset of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Assan, Evelyn Ama; Sarfo, Jacob Owusu – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2015
The study investigated the influence of geographical location, gender and age on the performance of Piagetian Conservation tasks. Four conservation tasks; conservation of liquid, length, substance amount and number respectively were administered to children [4-6 years] from rural and urban Ghana and their performance on each task were recorded.…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Geographic Location
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Van der Graaff, Jolien; Branje, Susan; De Wied, Minet; Hawk, Skyler; Van Lier, Pol; Meeus, Wim – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Empathy is an important social skill and is believed to play an essential role in moral development (Hoffman, 2000). In the present longitudinal study, the authors investigated adolescents' development of perspective taking and empathic concern from age 13 to 18 years (mean age at Wave 1 = 13 years, SD = 0.46) and examined its association with…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Empathy, Adolescents, Gender Differences
Jorgensen, Robyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
Drawing on survey data from over 2000 parents, this paper explores the possibility of early-years swimming to add mathematical capital to young children. Using developmental milestones as the basis, it was found that parents reported significantly earlier achievement on many of these milestones. Such data suggest that the early years swim…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Mathematics Instruction, Young Children, Child Development
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