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Teaching Kindergarten Children to Solve Problems: An Information-Processing Approach.
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Parrill-Brunstein, Melinda – Child Development, 1978
Investigated the effectiveness of a training procedure corresponding to a component analysis of a hypothesis-testing task in improving kindergarten children's problem-solving abilities. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Feedback, Hypothesis Testing, Kindergarten Children, Problem Solving
The Cognitive Consequences of Collaborative Problem Solving with and without Feedback.
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Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Six- to 9-year olds predicted the movement of a balance beam. Results indicated that children who received feedback improved their performance more than those who did not receive feedback; the presence of a partner was beneficial only when children did not receive feedback; and children whose partner exhibited higher-level reasoning benefitted…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cooperation, Feedback
Very Young Children's Acquisition of Systematic Problem-solving Strategies.
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Richards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 1981
Identified some experiences that lead to preschool children's transition from less to more systematic problem-solving strategies. Receiving encouragement to adopt more analytic attitudes and encountering problems with perceptually salient differences on a relevant dimension were the two types of experiences examined. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking, Critical Thinking, Experiential Learning
Evidence for the Understanding of Class Inclusion in Preschool Children: Linguistic Factors and Training Effects.
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Siegel, Linda S.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Classification, Feedback, Linguistic Competence, Logical Thinking
Children's Search Behaviors and Strategy Choices in Problem Solving
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Rothman, Bonnie S.; Potts, Marion – Child Development, 1977
Choice and use of problem-solving strategies were monitored during a picture comparison task for 90 kindergarten, second and fourth grade boys and girls. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
Maternal Regulation of Children's Problem-solving Behavior and Its Impact on Children's Performance.
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Freund, Lisa S. – Child Development, 1990
Focused on (1) the effect of mother-child interaction during a problem-solving task on subsequent, independent child performance; and (2) the variability in the division of task responsibilities and maternal regulation of the child as a function of task difficulty, child age, and task component. Participants were 60 three to five year olds and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Feedback, Individual Development, Mothers