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Evidence for a Role of Executive Functions in Learning Biology
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Rhodes, Sinéad M.; Booth, Josephine N.; Campbell, Lorna Elise; Blythe, Richard A.; Wheate, Nial J.; Delibegovic, Mirela – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Research examining cognition and science learning has focused on working memory, but evidence implicates a broader set of executive functions. The current study examined executive functions and learning of biology in young adolescents. Fifty-six participants, aged 12-13?years, completed tasks of working memory (Spatial Working Memory), inhibition…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Early Adolescents, Short Term Memory, Inhibition
Concurrent and Longitudinal Relationships between Development in Graphic, Language and Symbolic Play Domains from the Fourth to the Fifth Year
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Kirkham, Julie; Stewart, Andrew; Kidd, Evan – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This research investigated the developing inter-relationships between language, graphic symbolism and symbolic play both concurrently and longitudinally from the fourth to the fifth year of childhood. Sixty children ("n"?=?60) aged between 3 and 4?years completed multiple assessments of language and assessments of graphic symbolism,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Play, Nonverbal Ability, Longitudinal Studies