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Michael C. Frank; Heidi A. Baumgartner; Mika Braginsky; George Kachergis; Amy A. Lightbody; Robert Z. Sparks; Rebecca Zhu; Stephanie M. Carlson; Sandra Graham; Sebastián J. Lipina; Nora S. Newcombe; Candice L. Odgers; Robert C. Pianta; Robert S. Siegler; Margaret Snowling; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Ana Cubillo; Kenneth A. Dodge – Child Development, 2025
Despite the ubiquity of variation in child development within individuals, across groups, and across tasks, timescales, and contexts, dominant methods in developmental science and education research still favor group averages, short snapshots of time, and single environments. The Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE) is a framework…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Processes, Literacy, Numeracy
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Tamás Káldi; Ágnes Szollosi; Mihály Racsmány – Child Development, 2025
Retrieval practice is known to enhance long-term memory retention, a phenomenon termed as retrieval practice effect. Two experiments (NWhite = 202), showed that the effect was present in preschool age (5-6 years) and had a boundary condition, namely, amount of initial learning. Specifically, there was a considerable effect only when children…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)
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Xiuyuan Zhang; Brandon A. Carrillo; Ariana Christakis; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Learning takes time: Performance usually starts poorly and improves with practice. Do children intuit this basic phenomenon of skill learning? In preregistered Experiment 1 (n = 125; 54% female; 48% White; collected 2022-2023), US 7- to 8-year-old children predicted improved performance, 5- to 6-year-old children predicted flat performance, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Skill Development, Predictor Variables