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Rakoczy, Hannes; Oktay-Gür, Nese – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
When do children acquire a meta-representational Theory of Mind? False Belief (FB) tasks have become the litmus test to answer this question. In such tasks, subjects must ascribe a non-veridical belief to another agent and predict/explain her actions accordingly. Empirically, children pass explicit verbal versions of FB tasks from around age 4.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Theory of Mind, Beliefs, Task Analysis
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McAuliffe, Katherine; Blake, Peter R.; Warneken, Felix – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Advantageous inequity aversion emerges relatively late in child development, yet the mechanisms explaining its late emergence are poorly understood. Here, we ask whether children begin to reject advantageous inequity, a costly form of fairness, once reputational concerns are in place. Specifically, we examine the role of peer monitoring in…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Child Behavior, Justice, Children
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Barutchu, Ayla; Fifer, Joanne M.; Shivdasani, Mohit N.; Crewther, Sheila G.; Paolini, Antonio G. – Child Development, 2020
This study assessed the developmental profile of unisensory and multisensory processes, and their contribution to children's intellectual abilities (8- and 11-year olds, N = 38, compared to adults, N = 19) using a simple audiovisual detection task and three incidental associative learning tasks with different sensory signals: visual-verbal with…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Associative Learning, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Ability
Menendez, David; Hernandez, Iseli G.; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Children's understanding of death has been a topic of interest to researchers investigating the development of children's thinking and clinicians focusing on children's coping with the death of a loved one. Traditionally, researchers in cognitive development have mainly focused on death from a biological perspective. Current research suggests that…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Comprehension, Death
Bok, Derek – Princeton University Press, 2020
In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Educational Change, Undergraduate Study, Personality Traits
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Olumide, Obe O.; Iyamu, Tiko – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2020
Computer Programming is believed to have effect on creativity, reasoning, analytic and mathematical skills. This cognitive development is at a cost from both ends of students and teachers of computer programming. Its abstractive nature makes it difficult to teach and learn hence, the enormous hours spent in teaching, learning and developing…
Descriptors: Programming, Cognitive Development, Computer Science Education, Computer Interfaces
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Liu, Yan; Odic, Darko; Tang, Xuyan; Ma, Andy; Laricheva, Maria; Chen, Guanyu; Wu, Sirui; Niu, Man; Guo, Yue; Milner-Bolotin, Marina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The emerging field of robotics education (RE) is a new and rapidly growing subject area worldwide. It may provide a playful and novel learning environment for children to engage with all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. The purpose of this research is to examine how robotics learning activities may…
Descriptors: Robotics, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Young Children
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Ren, Lixin; Wang, Suqing; Mang, Lingyun – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined Chinese preschoolers' affective experiences during organized activities. One-on-one child interviews were conducted in which children were asked to rate their general affect during each organized activity in which they participated, and then provide reasons for their responses. Child-reported emotional engagement was related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Experience
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Uibu, Krista; Salo, Age; Ugaste, Aino; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
A teacher supervising the school practice of student teachers is regarded as an expert who sets an example of good teaching to future teachers and chooses teaching practices that support pupils' cognitive and social development. This study examines the implementation of teaching practices and the interpretation of these practices by school-based…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators, Observation, Supervision
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Paris, Joseph H.; Beckowski, Catherine Pressimone; Fiorot, Sara – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of higher education institutions adopted test-optional admissions policies. The proliferation of these policies and the criticism of standardized admissions tests as unreliable predictors of applicants' postsecondary educational promise have prompted the reimagining of evaluative methodologies in…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals), College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
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Andrew J. Ross; Elizabeth D. Handley; Sheree L. Toth; Dante Cicchetti – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Despite findings that developmental timing of maltreatment is a critical factor in predicting subsequent outcomes, children's developmental stage is understudied in maltreatment research. Moreover, childhood maltreatment is associated with the development of maladaptive peer relationships and psychopathology, with social cognition identified as a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Peer Relationship, Psychopathology
Ana Maria Fusu-Kommidi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lack of consistent elementary musical education in the United States has sustained a steady demand for private music instruction. Private instruction, however, does not usually align with the general music education standards, or the school requirements. There is a lack of research about private music instructors' role in music education for…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Private Education
Tam, Frankie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Executive functions (EF) are important cognitive processing skills required for planning, reasoning, problem solving and self-monitoring. It is vital to various aspects of human development from behavioral, social-emotional to academic. There is an increasing interest in identifying and developing cognitive skills training interventions. Results…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Executive Function, Game Based Learning, Intervention
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Chiu, Mei-Shiu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
This study proposes a family psychobiosocial model on gender differences in cognitive development. Specifically, the aim is to investigate how family biological, socioeconomic, and psychological factors predict child mathematics achievement (MAch) development. The data were obtained from the Millennium Cohort Study. Children's pattern construction…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cognitive Development, Socioeconomic Influences, Psychological Patterns
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Emer Smyth; Ivan Privalko – Research Papers in Education, 2023
This paper explores the association between children's difficulty in moving to secondary school and their family background. School transition difficulty is associated with a range of poor outcomes in young people, but studies have rarely taken a fully longitudinal perspective or looked in detail at inequalities in transition processes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Adjustment, Low Income Students
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