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de Vreeze-Westgeest, Mirjam G. J.; Vogelaar, Bart – Education Sciences, 2022
This study examined auditive and visual working memory and metacognitive knowledge in 92 gifted children (aged between eight and twelve), utilising a pre-test-training-post-test design, known as the cognitive training design. This approach was used to examine the working memory and metacognitive knowledge of gifted children concerning the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Development, Metacognition
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Braithwaite, David W.; Tian, Jing; Siegler, Robert S. – Developmental Science, 2018
Many children fail to master fraction arithmetic even after years of instruction. A recent theory of fraction arithmetic (Braithwaite, Pyke, & Siegler, 2017) hypothesized that this poor learning of fraction arithmetic procedures reflects poor conceptual understanding of them. To test this hypothesis, we performed three experiments examining…
Descriptors: Fractions, Addition, Arithmetic, Hypothesis Testing
Braithwaite, David W.; Tian, Jing; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Many children fail to master fraction arithmetic even after years of instruction. A recent theory of fraction arithmetic (Braithwaite, Pyke, & Siegler, in press) hypothesized that this poor learning of fraction arithmetic procedures reflects poor conceptual understanding of them. To test this hypothesis, we performed three experiments…
Descriptors: Fractions, Addition, Arithmetic, Mathematics
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Vukovic, Rose K.; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
This longitudinal study examined how language ability relates to mathematical development in a linguistically and ethnically diverse sample of children from 6 to 9 years of age. Study participants were 75 native English speakers and 92 language minority learners followed from first to fourth grades. Autoregression in a structural equation modeling…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics, Language, Children
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Zhou, Xin; Wang, Yefang; Wang, Luodan; Wang, Bin – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
Two samples of kindergarten children's representation and understanding of written number symbols were examined in two time points in one academic year. About 85% of Chinese five year olds (mean = 5 years 10 months) were able to use conventional number symbols to represent the quantity of 30 or larger. At the end of the kindergarten year, 94% of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics, Arithmetic, Longitudinal Studies
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McGlannan, Frances, Ed. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Educational Diagnosis
QUILLING, MARY R.; AND OTHERS – 1968
REVIEWED ARE (1) THE ACTIVITIES OF RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNITS IN TWO MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS DURING THE 1966-67 SCHOOL YEAR, AND (2) THE RESULTS OF FIELD TESTING OF R AND I UNITS. PART 1 PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PROGRAM. PARTS 2 AND 3 REPORT AND EVALUATE THE RESULTS OF TWO CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS OF MOTIVATIONAL…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Closed Circuit Television, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation