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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 63, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with an important Theory of Mind milestone, namely, false belief (FB) reasoning. Their FB success relates to mastery of a linguistic...
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From:Argumentation and Advocacy (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis study was designed to gain a better understanding of the natural development of children's argumentation abilities. The argument analysis skills of third, fifth and seventh graders were assessed for the extent to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA key skill in collaborative problem-solving is to communicate and evaluate reasons for proposals to arrive at the decision benefiting all group members. Although it is well-documented that collaborative contexts...
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From:Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedHow would you help a child understand that 8/24 = 1/3? What kinds of ideas and activities support that understanding? A common approach to fraction equivalence is to show that two fractional parts are the same size...
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From:Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedProponents of dialogic teaching argue for changes to classroom interaction to promote student language use and higher-order thinking. An under-researched aspect of dialogic approaches is the way students initiate and...
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From:Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 107, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInsight into early precursors of proportional reasoning is necessary to further our theoretical understanding of mathematical development and to guide early interventions. Although several researchers have suggested...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 53, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedI recently listened to a student explain that zombies eat brains. I wondered how such a statement compares, in the mind of a young child, to a statement like, "Penguins lay eggs." Only one of those statements can be...
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From:Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwo studies examined abstract conditional reasoning. First, participants at three grade levels (grade 8, college, university) were informed that a problem corresponding to Affirmation of the consequent (P implies Q, Q...
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From:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of constructivist instruction on children's conceptualization of force as compared to instruction based on text and demonstration, and to further...
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From:Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMathematics teachers should ask their students to explain how they find their answers to problems if they want to better understand the reasoning process in children. However, teachers should not ask questions by rote...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: This article examines whether syntactic and vocabulary abilities in American Sign Language (ASL) facilitate 6 categories of language-based analogical reasoning. Method: Data for this study were collected...
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From:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA growing body of evidence supports the importance of nurturing children's thinking. This article reports on an investigation of the influence of teachers' implementation of the Visible Thinking approach developed...
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From:Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 8, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe problem appearing in the February 2001 "Problem Solvers" section was stated as follows: Jordan's walks in the woods were always an adventure. One day, Jordan saw a big cat as he was walking. In his journal, he...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Elsa Loissel [double dagger], Lucy G. Cheke [double dagger],*, Nicola S. Clayton Introduction "Causality is a constraint common to all ecological niches" ([1], p.645). All environments, however diverse,...
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From:The Psychological Record (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTheory of mind (ToM) refers to the ability of an individual to make inferences about what others may be thinking or feeling and to predict what they may do in a given situation based on those inferences. Discussions of...
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From:Educational Studies in Mathematics (Vol. 104, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrevious research demonstrated that some children inappropriately solve multiplicative missing-value word problems additively, while others inappropriately solve additive missing-value word problems multiplicatively....
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Fidaa Almomani 1 , Murad O. Al-momani 2 , Nihayah Alsheyab 3 , Khader Al Mhdawi 1 Author Affiliations: (Aff1) 0000 0001 0097 5797, grid.37553.37, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of...
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From:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedM. A. (Ken) Clements Abstract. This paper reports an investigation into the problem-solving methods employed by three Grade 6 students who, over the course of a school year, worked on a variety of mathematics...
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From:Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"This is going to be a very, very, very, very tough question. It is going to take a lot of serious thinking. It is not going to be quick and easy. You are going to have to think about the ones column and the tens....
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From:Child Study Journal (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe effects of an Initial test of a dual intervention program designed to enhance moral reasoning and personal efficacy among fifth- and sixth-grade children was examined to determine whether the intervention would...