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Kreutzer et al.’s (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 40(1):1–60, 1975) metamemory interview has been widely used in children’s metamemory literature, yet the psychometric properties of the measure
have yet to be reported, and the format and language of some subtests may pose problems for young children. Researchers often
combine subtests with other tests purported to measure metamemory, yet there is little empirical data regarding how these
subtests relate. It has been proposed that metamemory is comprised of distinct procedural and declarative components, but
this has not been empirically tested in young children. Therefore, the two studies reported here aimed to adapt Kreutzer et
al.’s interview to increase its developmental appropriateness, to examine the relationship between the interview subtests,
to add subtests that purport to test procedural metamemory, and then to examine the factor structure of the resulting scores
and investigate how metamemory changes with age across the elementary school years. The results suggest that the adapted versions
of the subtests are generally less contaminated by language ability, especially for the younger children. Factor analysis
indicated the presence of two declarative metamemory factors and one procedural metamemory factor. Both declarative factors
followed a similar developmental trajectory, increasing steadily from early to late elementary school age, whereas procedural
metamemory increased significantly between Grades 1 and 3 only. 相似文献
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This article describes an integrated art and early literacy project entitled, ‘Picture Partners’. The main purpose of the
project was to explore how young children create and express meaning through art. Children’s responses, both written and spoken,
were included because accompanying modes of expression expand the nature and content of their drawings and inform teachers
about children’s intentions and processes of thinking. A secondary purpose was to investigate how children use illustrations
from familiar picture books as models for their own creations and whether children’s responses to stories might be enhanced
through their collaboration with peers. Partnerships were formed and participants worked in close proximity as they drew pictures
in response to a teacher directed prompt. Using qualitative, interpretative analysis, a small subset of drawings produced
by kindergarten and first grade children was examined. The results revealed that the process of drawing was influenced by
illustrations in picturebooks, peer interactions, and the artwork of partners in close proximity. The shift in emphasis away
from the interpretations of visual realism in children’s drawings towards their own purposes allowed readers to focus on the
way drawings represent meaning within children’s socio-cultural worlds. 相似文献
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“It’s the X and Y Thing”: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Changes in Children’s Understanding of Genes 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Studies from different theoretical traditions investigating children’s inheritance and genetics concepts have adopted a cross-sectional
method. This paper is the first to examine both cross-sectional and longitudinal changes in children’s basic genetic concepts.
It forms part of a larger investigation into the development of intuitive inheritance and genetics concepts in childhood.
Four age cohorts (4–5 years, 7–8 years, 10–11 years, 14–15 years) were interviewed individually at two measurement occasions
(T1, N = 182; T2, N = 164) separated by a 1-year interval. Cross-sectional analyses revealed an increase in children’s knowledge of genetics
by 10 years. Between 10 and 14 years, there were fewer changes in the content of children’s knowledge, especially at the level
of scientific genetic understanding. There was little evidence of longitudinal changes over the 1-year period. Overall, children
may hold an understanding of genetics that is tied to knowledge of inheritance within families. This may pose challenges for
acquiring more abstract and formal concepts of genes. 相似文献
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Nancy Digdon Michael Pressley Joel R. Levin 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1985,33(2):139-145
Preschool children heard two ten-sentence stories. Each sentence was accompanied by two pictures (one of the subject and one
of the object of the sentence), by a picture of the sentence’s subject, by a picture of the sentence’s object, or by no pictures.
After presentation of the stories, the children answered questions requiring recall of the sentence objects. Only the two-picture
illustration variation produced significantly beffer learning relative to no-picture control performance. This finding held
both when children were instructed to make mental images representing the prose and when they simply listened to the text.
The results are relevant both to theories of children’s imagery and to practical issues about how to illustrate children’s
texts.
This research was supported by a grant to the second author from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada. 相似文献
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Jinhee Kim 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2011,39(2):133-141
This study examines what a Korean heritage language school means to Korean immigrant families and their children, considering
Korean immigrant mothers’ perspectives on American early schooling. As part of an ethnographic research project on Korean-American
children’s peer culture in a heritage school, seven mothers, two guardians (grandmothers), and their young children were observed
and interviewed during one academic year. The analysis showed that the heritage language school functions as a social and
emotional support system, a buffer for reducing the detachment from parents, and a safety net for the Korean-American children’s
challenging lives. The Korean immigrant mothers also showed that they felt burdened by different cultural views of their children’s
behaviors, and described how their children were often considered problematic. The social and culture barriers caused by their
immigrant status profoundly influenced their reasons for sending their children to a Korean heritage language school. This
study suggests that teachers’ deep understanding of culturally different perspectives on children’s behaviors, along with
systematic social and emotional support, can help these children attain psychological well-being. 相似文献
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Louise Spear-Swerling 《Reading and writing》2006,19(2):199-220
This study explored third-graders’ oral reading fluency (ORF) in easy text in relation to their third- and fourth-grade reading
comprehension. It also examined the children’s performance on two different measures of text exposure, a self-report questionnaire
and a title-recognition test. Although third-graders’ ORF related significantly to their reading comprehension, oral language
comprehension accounted for most of the variance in reading comprehension, whereas single word reading speed accounted for
most of the variance in ORF. Third-grade reading comprehension and ORF each predicted unique variance in children’s scores
on a fourth-grade state-mandated reading comprehension assessment. Scores on the self-report questionnaire correlated significantly
with third-grade ORF and fourth-grade reading; the self-report accounted for reliable variance in ORF even with all of the
other reading ability variables entered first. Results are consistent with the viewpoint that text exposure affects reading
fluency. They also demonstrate that ORF is a valuable predictor of middle-elementary children’s reading comprehension, even
when the ORF measure employs very easy text in which children achieve near-perfect word accuracy. 相似文献
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Kees P. van den Bos 《Annals of dyslexia》1980,30(1):94-111
Summary The greater discrepancy between spatial vs sequential/conceptual WISC subtest results in learning-disabled children is instrumental
to the idea that these children might profit relatively more from an imagery based strategy in organizing and recalling noun
pairs and triplets than from a verbal strategy. The results from the present studies with concrete nouns show that this is
not the case. Another result is that learning-disabled children’s recall performance is also lower when strategy instructed
(except in the first experiment) than normal children’s performance. Suggestions as to which strategy aspects could be responsible
are given.
This paper is based upon a presentation at the 30th Annual Conference of The Orton Society in Indianapolis, November 1979. 相似文献
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Mugyeong Moon 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2001,2(1):22-31
The purpose of this study is to investigate teacher perspectives on peer relation problems of young children. Examined are
teacher definition of and assessment criteria for peer relation problems, and the most poignant peer relation problem perceived
by teachers. Three experienced American preschool teachers are interviewed and observed for one year. It is found that the
teachers define children’s peer relation problems as part of developmental processes and individual differences. The teachers
judge peer relation problems in terms of children’s emotional well-being, intentions, and social skills, and perceive children’s
control of others as the most serious peer relation problem in the classroom. It is posited that the teachers’ perspectives
rely on the emotional and motivational bases of children’s relationships with peers. The related issues are discussed and
implications for teaching practices are provided. 相似文献
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Chronoula Voutsina 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):193-214
This study analysed the different types of arithmetic knowledge that young children utilise when solving a multiple-step addition
task. The focus of the research was on the procedural and conceptual changes that occur as children develop their overall
problem solving approach. Combining qualitative case study with a micro-genetic approach, clinical interviews were conducted
with ten 5–6-year-old children. The aim was to document how children combine knowledge of addition facts, calculation procedures
and arithmetic concepts when solving a multiple-step task and how children’s application of different types of knowledge and
overall solving approach changes and develops when children engage with solving the task in a series of problem solving sessions.
The study documents children’s pathways towards developing a more effective and systematic approach to multiple-step tasks
through different phases of their problem solving behaviour. The analysis of changes in children’s overt behaviour reveals
a dynamic interplay between children’s developing representation of the task, their improved procedures and gradually their
more explicit grasp of the conceptual aspects of their strategy. The findings provide new evidence that supports aspects of
the “iterative model” hypothesis of the interaction between procedural and conceptual knowledge and highlight the need for
educational approaches and tasks that encourage and trigger the interplay of different types of knowledge in young children’s
arithmetic problem solving. 相似文献
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Eleni Moschovaki Sara Meadows Anthony D. Pellegrini 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(4):405-420
This study examines how teachers’ use of affective strategies (voice intonation, dramatization, personal involvement comments)
during the reading and discussion of books influence young children’s affective reactions (dramatization, personal engagement,
language play comments). Twenty kindergarten teachers read four books, two fiction and two information ones (narrative/expository
text).
We found significant differences in both teachers’ affective presentation and young children’s affective reactions between
fiction and information books, between the two fiction books but not between the narrative and expository text. A strong bi-directional
relationship was found between teachers’ affective presentation of stories and young children’s affective reactions. In particular,
teachers’ personal involvement comments prompted children’s personal engagement reactions, teachers’ reenactment was followed
by children’s imitations of such reenactments and teachers’ voice intonation elicited children’s personal engagement comments.
On the other hand, children’s use of paralinguistic cues and personal engagement comments reinforced teachers’ use of voice
intonation and personal involvement comments. Finally, text features, such as rhyming, were followed by children’s language
play. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to examine: (a) the role of teacher talk in promoting peer interaction, (b) the adequacy of
social IEP objectives to reflect children’s social functioning and guide provision of teacher talk, and (c) differences in
children’s peer interaction and teacher talk in inclusive and segregated settings. Thirty children with disabilities and their
teachers participated. Overall, we observed low rates of teacher talk thought to support peer interaction; however, when teachers
verbally facilitated peer interaction, children were observed interacting more frequently with peers. Children’s social IEPs
accurately reflected their current level of social functioning. However, the social IEPs appeared to fail to influence teacher
intervention. Finally, children with disabilities in inclusive settings interacted with peers more than children in segregated
settings, even though there was no significant difference in amount of teacher talk in the two settings. 相似文献
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Romaizah Salleh Grady J. Venville David F. Treagust 《Research in Science Education》2007,37(3):291-312
With increasing numbers of students learning science through a second language in many school contexts, there is a need for
research to focus on the impact language has on students’ understanding of science concepts. Like other countries, Brunei
has adopted a bilingual system of education that incorporates two languages in imparting its curriculum. For the first three
years of school, Brunei children are taught in Malay and then for the remainder of their education, instruction is in English.
This research is concerned with the influence that this bilingual education system has on children’s learning of science.
The purpose was to document the patterns of Brunei students’ developing understandings of the concepts of living and non-living
things and examine the impact in the change in language as the medium of instruction. A cross-sectional case study design
was used in one primary school. Data collection included an interview (n = 75), which consisted of forced-response and semi-structured interview questions, a categorisation task and classroom observation.
Data were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results indicate that the transition from Malay to English as the
language of instruction from Primary 4 onwards restricted the students’ ability to express their understandings about living
things, to discuss related scientific concepts and to interpret and analyse scientific questions. From a social constructivist
perspective these language factors will potentially impact on the students’ cognitive development by limiting the expected
growth of the students’ understandings of the concepts of living and non-living things.
A paper accepted by Research in Science Education, August, 2006. 相似文献
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Liv Gjems 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(4):271-278
As a genre of talk, narratives represent important building blocks in children’s learning in many fields. The purpose of the
study presented in this article is to examine how teachers can encourage children’s learning about people’s beliefs through
narrating. Narratives play an important part in children’s learning to understand other people and how they will act according
to what they believe, think or know. This study is based on video observations of six children, 3 and 4 years old, and their
spontaneous personal narratives told to teachers over a period of 8 months. The narrative analysis revealed that in most of
the narratives the teachers were passive listeners or were concerned about the structure of events. The teachers seldom asked
questions about the children’s mental state or disagreed with the child in ways that revealed their different beliefs. Suggestions
about implications of this study are that early childhood teacher education should focus on talking with children about what
they may think or believe concerning narrated events, and also reveal what they think and believe themselves. 相似文献
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Are children’s understanding of mental states (understanding of mind) related to their notating skills, that is, their ability
to produce and read written marks to convey information about objects and number? Fifty-three preschoolers and kindergarteners
were presented with a dictation task where they produced some written marks and were later asked to read them back. Understanding
of mind was assessed using two tasks. Children’s name-writing and language skills were assessed as covariates. Children’s
understanding of their own and other’s mental states was associated with their notating skills. Findings are discussed in
light of the reciprocal writer-reader relation: keeping an audience in mind when writing and a writer in mind when reading.
This reciprocal relation is central to writing and reading development. 相似文献
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This study investigated the ability of the English and Spanish versions of the Get Ready to Read! Screener (E-GRTR and S-GRTR) administered at the beginning of the preschool year to predict the oral language and phonological
and print processing skills of Spanish-speaking English-language learners (ELLs) and English-only speaking children (EO) at
the end of the year. The results revealed that the E-GRTR predicted the EO and ELL children’s English emergent literacy skills
and the ELL children’s Spanish emergent literacy skills, and the S-GRTR predicted the ELL children’s English and Spanish emergent
literacy skills. For both groups, the E-GRTR and the S-GRTR were better at predicting children’s print knowledge in English
and Spanish compared to the other emergent literacy measures. The findings suggest that both screeners can be used effectively
to assess preschool children’s emergent literacy skills. 相似文献
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Three common assumptions concerning bilingual children’s language proficiency are: (1) their proficiency in two languages
is usually unbalanced; (2) low socioeconomic status (SES) indicates low proficiency in both languages; and (3) encouraging
parents to speak some societal language at home will promote its development. Examining the vocabulary scores of 282 bilingual
Singaporean kindergartners (167 Chinese, 70 Malay, and 45 Tamil), the current study found that these young children were evenly
divided among four language profiles: strong in ethnic language (Chinese, Malay or Tamil) or English, strong in both languages,
or weak in both. Children with high proficiency in both languages were proportionally represented in the low, middle and high
SES groups, demonstrating the achievability of strong vocabulary in two languages for children of different SES. However,
low SES children were most at risk for low proficiency in both languages, although many achieved high proficiency in ethnic
language or both. Middle and high SES children were most likely to demonstrate low ethnic language with high English proficiency.
Children mostly exposed to one language from different sources generally showed strength in that language. Children exposed
to both languages at home were most likely to show low proficiency in both languages, although plenty of children exposed
to both languages developed high proficiency in English or both. These results affirm previous findings that SES and home
language exposure influence bilingual children’s proficiency. Implications include the importance of teachers assessing bilingual
children’s proficiency in both languages and collaborating with parents to develop bilingual children’s vocabulary. 相似文献
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Vrinda Kalia 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):149-153
The goal of this study was to examine the role of Indian bilingual parents’ book reading practices on the development of the
children’s oral language, narrative and literacy skills in English, their second language. About 24 bilingual children from
two preschools in Bangalore, India were tested in schools in English on receptive vocabulary, complex syntax, narrative expression,
phonological awareness, and concepts about print. The findings suggest that exposure to book reading in English is associated
with bilingual children’s oral language, narrative and literacy development in their second language. 相似文献
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Parents of dyslexic children encounter many difficulties in understanding and accepting their children’s disability. This
affects the child’s self-image and the way s/he copes (Hallahan and Kauffman 1991; Einat 2003). The goal of this study was to develop VR immersive simulated states. The simulation was designed to help the parents of
dyslexic children experience the kind of errors their children make when reading. Two groups of parents of dyslexic children
participated in this experiment, an experimental group (N = 37), which experienced ten 3D worlds simulating different kinds of reading errors, and a control group (N = 30), that watched a movie describing and explaining similar errors. All the subjects were administered a cognitive questionnaire
(Shavit 2005) before and after the intervention. In addition, the participants in the experimental group were interviewed before and after
the intervention. The results indicate that experiencing a variety of simulated types of dyslexia with virtual reality can
bring about improvement in parents’ awareness of the dyslexic child’s cognitive experiences, and that this improvement is
significantly greater than that achieved by watching a film about dyslexia. 相似文献
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Four year old children’s acquisition of print knowledge during electronic storybook reading 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The experiment reported here explored the importance of engaging 4-year-old children’s interest in the print itself during
storybook reading. We explored the effect of computer animation of the print in order to draw the child’s attention to each
word as it was read. We also investigated the influence of illustrating that not all visual displays are readable print on
the child’s print knowledge. The measures of interest were print concept knowledge and early reading skill. Results indicated
that simply drawing children’s attention to the print during shared reading was insufficient to facilitate children’s learning
of print conventions, but this attention to print while hearing stories read did improve children’s letter reading. The child’s
active engagement with the print during shared story reading led to further improvements in written language skills, as illustrated
by gains in knowledge about print concepts. 相似文献