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McMullen, Jake; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; Lehtinen, Erno – Cognition and Instruction, 2014
While preschool-aged children display some skills with quantitative relations, later learning of related fraction concepts is difficult for many students. We present two studies that investigate young children's tendency of Spontaneous Focusing On quantitative Relations (SFOR), which may help explain individual differences in the development of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Individual Differences, Arithmetic, Case Studies
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Wüstenberg, Sascha; Greiff, Samuel; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Murphy, Kevin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Changes in the demands posed by increasingly complex workplaces in the 21st century have raised the importance of nonroutine skills such as complex problem solving (CPS). However, little is known about the antecedents and outcomes of CPS, especially with regard to malleable external factors such as classroom climate. To investigate the relations…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Problem Solving, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries