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Antonia Petropoulou; Konstantinos Lavidas; Stamatis Papadakis – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: Awareness of the mathematical skills and knowledge children possess in their early years is widely accepted. This includes various common positive aspects, not only for educators but also for researchers and policymakers. This study presents a systematic review conducted to meticulously identify empirical studies published in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Young Children, Mathematical Concepts
Castellaro, Mariano; Roselli, Néstor – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
The article aims to study the verbal collaborative interaction in both symmetrical and asymmetrical dyads according to specific individual cognitive competence. The interaction was analyzed in terms of cognitive and non-cognitive aspects. 19 dyads (38 fifth and sixth graders) participated. First, they individually solved a set of logical problems…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Cooperative Learning
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Zanchi, Paola; Zampini, Laura; Fasolo, Mirco; D'Odorico, Laura – First Language, 2016
The present study examines narrative competence and its relationships with syntactic and prosodic skills in preschool children. The narrative skills of 30 typically developing Italian children were assessed during their first year of kindergarten attendance (T1) and again one year later (T2). A picture book was used to elicit children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Syntax
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Ren, Xuezhu; Goldhammer, Frank; Moosbrugger, Helfried; Schweizer, Karl – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The aim of the present study was to clarify the nature of the ability-specific and position-specific components of Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) by relating them to a number of types of attention. The ability-specific component represents the constant part of cognitive performance whereas the position-specific component reflects the…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Ability, Models, Data
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Beeson, Pelagie M.; Higginson, Kristina; Rising, Kindle – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Treatment studies have documented the therapeutic and functional value of lexical writing treatment for individuals with severe aphasia. The purpose of this study was to determine whether such retraining could be accomplished using the typing feature of a cellular telephone, with the ultimate goal of using text messaging for…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Therapy, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Scheu, Ian Edward; Lawrence, Thomas – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2013
This article details the construction of a computer program to test cognitive processing differences in adolescents engaged in a standard presentation of tests versus a fantasy-based game presentation. The article will discuss the challenges of creating a replication of traditional psychological tests into a new medium which holds comparable…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Games, Adolescents