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Multidimensionality of Children's Foundational Skills: An IRT-Based Validation of the NEPSY Factorial Structure
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Alvin Vista; Helyn Kim – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2025
Objective: Measurement tools for children's foundational skills provide important insights towards the developmental mechanisms of these domains. This study examines the structure of sensorimotor, visuospatial processing (VP), executive function (EF) skills and their interrelationship. The NEPSY is a widely-used neuropsychological instrument, but…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Motor Learning, Multisensory Learning
Aging Affects Motor Learning but Not Savings at Transfer of Learning
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Seidler, Rachael D. – Learning & Memory, 2007
Two important components of skill learning are the learning process itself (motor acquisition) and the ability to transfer what has been learned to new task variants (motor transfer). Many studies have documented age-related declines in the ability to learn new manual motor skills. In this study, I tested whether the degree of savings at transfer…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Feedback, Learning Disabilities, Aging (Individuals)
The Transfer of Perceptual and/or Motor Training to the Performance of a Coincidence-Anticipation Task.
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Bard, Chantal; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Tested children's transfer of training in performance of coincidence-anticipation task. At an experimental apparatus, children attempted to intercept a fixed or moving target by pressing a button or by sliding a disk (the criterion task). Found that improved accuracy in intercepting the moving target by sliding the disk occurred only when children…
Descriptors: Children, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Perceptual Motor Learning
Spatial Concepts and Balance Performance: Motor Learning in Blind and Visually Impaired Children.
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Pereira, L. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
The study evaluated positional concepts and balance performance in 67 blind/visually impaired children, age 6-13, to determine the most important conditioning factors. The study also evaluated the effects of 2 pedagogical situations: 1 with more cognitive activity and less motor activity, and the other with more motor activity and less cognitive…
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Motor Development
The Role of Experience in Spatial Test Performance: A Meta-Analysis.
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Baenninger, Maryann; Newcombe, Nora – Sex Roles, 1989
The hypotheses that sex differences in spatial ability may result from differences in spatial experience, and that training can improve spatial skills regardless of sex, are tested. Meta-analytic techniques are used. Relationships between spatial activity and ability, and the improvability of spatial test performance for both sexes, are confirmed.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Females, Kinesthetic Perception, Learning Modalities
Identifying and Remediating the Developmental Delays of Kindergarten At Risk Students through an Extended Day Program.
Weber, Kathleen M. – 1991
A program was developed for six kindergarten students identified as at risk because of developmental delays. The program involved an hour of instruction after the regular school day, 2 days a weeks for a 10-week period, with a curriculum focusing on visual, auditory, and motor development. Specific skill areas included visual motor coordination,…
Descriptors: After School Education, Auditory Training, Early Intervention, High Risk Students