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Armitage, Kristy L.; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2022
Ninety-seven children aged 4-11 (49 males, 48 females, mostly White) were given the opportunity to improve their problem-solving performance by devising and implementing a novel cognitive offloading strategy. Across two phases, they searched for hidden rewards using maps that were either aligned or misaligned with the search space. In the second…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving
Nicolay, Björn; Krieger, Florian; Stadler, Matthias; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Lindner, Marlit Annalena; Hansen, Anne; Greiff, Samuel – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
The ability to solve complex problems successfully represents a key competence for students' educational success and beyond. While strategy application and metastrategic knowledge constitute two underlying components that drive successful complex problem solving (CPS), little is known about how these two facets develop individually and jointly in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Juric, Josipa – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This paper explores the correlation between mental calculation performance and the frequency of using written algorithms in mental calculation tasks. Mental calculation is a mathematical tool used in everyday life situations during and after our formal education. After presenting an overview of the professional literature on this topic, the paper…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Mathematics Curriculum
Wang, Li; Cao, Chen; Zhou, Xinlin; Qi, Chunxia – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Open math problem solving is critical to help students deepen the understanding and promote transfer of mathematics knowledge. However, the cognitive mechanism for open math problem solving, particularly the role of spatial abilities, has not been paid enough attention. This study recruited 192 junior middle school students (14.30 ± 0.48 years…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Transfer of Training
Di Martino, Pietro – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
Educators and several national standards highlight the role that problem solving should play in students' mathematics education: problem solving is recognized as one of the most significant activities of doing mathematics. From the research point of view, nowadays, it is well established that cognitive and affective factors come into play in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving
Cassotti, Mathieu; Agogué, Marine; Camarda, Anaëlle; Houdé, Olivier; Borst, Grégoire – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Developmental cognitive neuroscience studies tend to show that the prefrontal brain regions (known to be involved in inhibitory control) are activated during the generation of creative ideas. In the present article, we discuss how a dual-process model of creativity--much like the ones proposed to account for decision making and reasoning--could…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Cognitive Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Inhibition
de Oliveira, Ebenézer A.; Jackson, Emily A. – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Based on L. S. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, previous scaffolding studies have examined some factors associated with adjustment of parental support during collaborative problem solving. However, a factor that remains unexplored in the literature is the potential relationship between parental empathy and parental support in collaborative problem…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Observation, Problem Solving
Çevik, Gülsen Büyüksahin; Yildiz, Mehmet Ali – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The current research aims to examine the perceived social support and coping styles predicting positivity. Research participants included 268 adolescents, attending high school, with 147 females (54.9%) and 121 males (45.1%). Adolescents participating in the research were 14 to 18 years old and their average age was 16.12 with SD = 1.01. Research…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Coping, Adolescents, Positive Attitudes
Chen, Zhe; Honomichl, Ryan; Kennedy, Diane; Tan, Enda – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study examines 5- to 8-year-old children's relation reasoning in solving matrix completion tasks. This study incorporates a componential analysis, an eye-tracking method, and a microgenetic approach, which together allow an investigation of the cognitive processing strategies involved in the development and learning of children's…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Analysis, Componential Analysis, Cognitive Processes
Neyen, Julia; Volpe, Carolyn Ann; Selby, Edwin C.; Houtz, John C. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
Two independent studies were conducted to examine the relationship of problem solving styles to parenting styles. Both studies used VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style and the Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ). Study 1 included 173 adults recruited using Mechanical Turk and Study 2 included 131 adults recruited using Qualtrics. Data…
Descriptors: Correlation, Problem Solving, Parenting Styles, Questionnaires
Wieder, Serena – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
Symbolic play is a powerful vehicle for supporting emotional development and communication. It embraces all developmental capacities. This article describes how symbols are formed and how emotional themes are symbolized whereby children reveal their understanding of the world, their feelings and relationships, and how they see themselves in the…
Descriptors: Play, Emotional Response, Models, Child Development
Finestack, Lizbeth H. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: In the current study, the author aimed to determine whether 4- to 6-year-old typically developing children possess requisite problem-solving and language abilities to produce, generalize, and retain a novel verb inflection when taught using an explicit, deductive teaching procedure. Method: Study participants included a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Young Children, Problem Solving, Language Skills, Verbs
Lamb, Lisa; Bishop, Jessica; Philipp, Randolph; Whitacre, Ian; Schappelle, Bonnie – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
To better understand the role that ways of reasoning play in students' success on integer addition and subtraction problems, we examined the relationship between students' flexible use of ways of reasoning and their performance on integers open number sentences. Within groups of students in 3 participant groups--39 2nd and 4th graders who had…
Descriptors: Numbers, Addition, Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction
Ignatovich, Vladlen K.; Ignatovich, Svetlana S. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2015
This article seeks to substantiate the need for the prognostic assessment of the degree to which school students are prepared to master new types of activity, which underlie their design of an individual learning route at an appropriate senior stage of learning. The authors discuss the concept of project competence as an integral characteristic of…
Descriptors: Readiness, Competence, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7
Seed, Amanda M.; Call, Josep – Developmental Psychology, 2014
By 3 years of age, children can solve tasks involving physical principles such as locating a ball that rolled down a ramp behind an occluder by the position of a partially visible solid wall (Berthier, DeBlois, Poirer, Novak, & Clifton, 2000; Hood, Carey, & Prasada, 2000). However, the extent to which children use physical information (the…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Physics, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking