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Fidget Devices as Academic and Behavioral Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Design Studies
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Ella C. Schoenen; Julie C. Martinez; Paulina Grekov; Kathleen B. Aspiranti; David Hulac – Education and Treatment of Children, 2024
Fidget devices are often used in classrooms to help students move their bodies while attending to academic or behavioral directives. Devices range from small handheld tools such as spinners and tangle puzzles to larger full-body devices such as exercise balls. The current study provides a meta-analysis of the effects of fidget devices as academic…
Descriptors: Students, Sensory Aids, Manipulative Materials, Object Manipulation
Object Exploration Is Facilitated by the Physical and Social Environment in Center-Based Child Care
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
Sequential Analysis of Mastery Behavior in 6- and 12-Month-Old Infants.
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MacTurk, Robert H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Sequences of mastery behavior were analyzed in a sample of 67 infants 6 to 12 months old. Authors computed (a) frequencies of six categories of mastery behavior, transitional probabilities, and z scores for each behavior change, and (b) transitions from a mastery behavior to positive affect. Changes in frequencies and similarity in organization…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Goal Orientation, Infants
The Role of Play in the Development of Insightful Tool-Using Strategies.
Vandenberg, Brian – 1978
This experiment investigates the relation of a free play experience to subsequent performance on problem solving tasks among children aged 4 to 10. Ninety children were divided into 3 age groups and were assigned in pairs of free play and non-play treatment conditions. Children were paired by block design test scores to control for perceptual…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Elementary School Students, Object Manipulation
Infants' Hand Preference in a Task Involving Complementary Roles for the Two Hands.
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Ramsay, Douglas S.; Weber, Sherry Lee – Child Development, 1986
Tested infants in their second year with a box task to determine whether they would show a hand preference in solutions involving complete differentiation of roles for the two hands. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
Object Manipulation and Exploration in Two- to Five-Month-Old Infants.
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Rochat, Philippe – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Studied the early development of exploratory behavior in 99 infants of 2-5 months. Results show that there are significant changes in spontaneous multimodal exploration of a novel object between 2 and 5 months. (RJC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Exploratory Behavior, Infant Behavior
The Ability to Negotiate the Environment: An Aspect of Infant Competence as Related to Quality of Attachment.
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Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 1986
Explores the relation between the infant's ability to negotiate the environment and the quality of the infant-mother attachment relationship. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Children's Changing Capacity to Process Information.
Woollacott, Marjorie H. – 1983
An understanding of the stages involved in children's development of sensory motor integration would aid in the creation of instructional strategies in physical education. These strategies would optimize both the child's physical coordination and creative development by increasing the correlation between the demands of a learning environment and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Early Experience