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Xiuyuan Zhang; Brandon A. Carrillo; Ariana Christakis; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Learning takes time: Performance usually starts poorly and improves with practice. Do children intuit this basic phenomenon of skill learning? In preregistered Experiment 1 (n = 125; 54% female; 48% White; collected 2022-2023), US 7- to 8-year-old children predicted improved performance, 5- to 6-year-old children predicted flat performance, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Skill Development, Predictor Variables
Anna Henriksson; Lotta Leden; Marie Fridberg; Susanne Thulin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This article attempts to address the challenge that preschool teachers face, when integrating a specific content area, science, with play. The study builds on the theoretical framework of Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care (PRECEC), in which teaching, and play are understood as a mutual activity. In this mutual activity, teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Young Children
Abolghasem, Zahra; Teng, Tiffany H.-T.; Nexha, Elida; Zhu, Cherrie; Jean, Cindy S.; Castrillon, Mariana; Che, Eric; Di Nallo, Eva V.; Schlichting, Margaret L. – Developmental Science, 2023
Even once children can accurately remember their experiences, they nevertheless struggle to use those memories in flexible new ways--as in when drawing inferences. However, it remains an open question as to whether the developmental differences observed during both memory formation and inference itself represent a fundamental limitation on…
Descriptors: Memory, Inferences, Learning Processes, Young Children
Alvin W. M. Tan; Virginia A. Marchman; Michael C. Frank – Developmental Science, 2024
Bilingual environments present an important context for word learning. One feature of bilingual environments is the existence of translation equivalents (TEs)--words in different languages that share similar meanings. Documenting TE learning over development may give us insight into the mechanisms underlying word learning in young bilingual…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingual Education, Translation, Vocabulary Development
Tony Eaude – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This article explores tentatively how young children develop a sense of beauty and should be guided in doing so. Beauty is partly a matter of personal preference, but it implies a more profound and considered idea than what is pleasing or attractive. Beauty contributes to well-being and a flourishing life. Since ideas of beauty vary over time and…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Child Development, Socialization, Socioeconomic Influences
Strouse, Gabrielle A.; Samson, Jennifer E. – Child Development, 2021
Young children often learn less from video than face-to-face presentations. Meta-regression models were used to examine the average size of this difference (video deficit) and investigate moderators. An average deficit of about half of a standard deviation was reported across 122 independent effect sizes from 59 reports, involving children ages…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Young Children, Learning Processes, Effect Size
Tracy Charlotte Young; Pauliina Rautio – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This article bewilders dominant discourses about child-animal relations by acknowledging and challenging the work of Gail Melson who positions animals as providing emotional, social and pedagogical support for children. Melson's psychological approach rests upon implicit assumptions that shape and support anthropocentrism whilst also critiquing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Child Development, Relationship
Beisert, Miriam; Daum, Moritz M. – Child Development, 2021
An inherent component of tool-use actions is the transformation of the user's operating movement into the desired effect. In this study, the relevance of this transformation for young children's learning of tool-use actions was investigated. Sixty-four children at the age of 27-30 months learned to use levers which either simply extended…
Descriptors: Young Children, Equipment, Task Analysis, Learning Processes
Schneider, Rose M.; Sullivan, Jessica; Guo, Kaiqi; Barner, David – Child Development, 2021
Although many U.S. children can count sets by 4 years, it is not until 5½--6 years that they understand how counting relates to number--that is, that adding 1 to a set necessitates counting up one number. This study examined two knowledge sources that 3½- to 6-year-olds (N = 136) may leverage to acquire this "successor function": (a)…
Descriptors: Computation, Number Concepts, Young Children, Arithmetic
Lisa Fyffe; Pat L. Sample; Angela Lewis; Karen Rattenborg; Anita C. Bundy – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Cross-case study research was used to explore the school readiness of four 5-year-old children entering kindergarten during the 2020-2021 school year after three or more years of play-based early childhood education at a Reggio Emilia-inspired early childhood education center. Data included a series of three 1-h individual interviews with four…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Play, School Readiness
Kate T. Chazin; Jennifer R. Ledford; Jane M. Wilson-Moses; Adithyan Rajaraman; A. Pablo Juárez – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Despite the importance of centering autistic perspectives in educational decision-making for autistic children, few studies have directly assessed autistic perspectives on the social acceptability of early childhood practices. We conducted an online survey to recruit perspectives of autistic adults on a current, comprehensive range of educational…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Peer Acceptance, Young Children, Educational Objectives
Jiao, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Anqi; Bu, Xiaomei – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Metacognition plays an important role in the development of young children. Recent studies have found that metacognition and executive function are independent but closely related. In this study, 55 children aged 4-5 years were selected as subjects, and a short-term longitudinal design was used to analyze the relationships among metacognition,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Metacognition, Mathematics Skills, Language Skills
Yiyi Chen; Zihe Ding – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Digitalization can potentially benefit the creative and cognitive development of children. This study aims to analyze this impact on a sample of preschool children. A total of 80 preschoolers were divided into four groups based on their age and program variables: there were two groups (control and training) of children aged 3 to 4 years and two…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Young Children, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Moradi, Jalil; Maleki, Mohammad; Moradi, Hadi – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effect of part and whole practice on learning basketball lay-up shot skill in young and adolescent male students. Participants were randomly divided into four groups of part and whole practice, namely, part practice-young, whole practice-young, part practice-adolescent, and whole practice-adolescent. After a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adolescents, Males, Team Sports
Fu, Chanjuan; Hao, Xiaoxin; Shi, Donglin; Wang, Lin; Geng, Fengji – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Coding learning can promote the development of computational thinking (CT) in young children. The effect of coding learning on CT may vary between different cultures. However, it lacks studies to evaluate the effect of coding learning on the various dimensions of CT in young Chinese children. To provide insight into this question, we recruited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Computation, Thinking Skills