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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cognitive Growth"”.
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Facilitating the cognitive growth of baccalaureate nursing students: using writing strategies for thinking and cognitive development /28 cm
… whether a nurse educator could facilitate the cognitive development of baccalaureate nursing students using writing strategies that challenged their thinking. The literature focuses first on the model of the cognitive development of college students as Perry first delineated it (1970) and later …
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Effects of friend support on the parenting behavior of Latina adolescent mothers
… friends displayed more maternal sensitivity and cognitive growth fostering behavior. In contrast, mothers indicating greater friend socializing support displayed less cognitive growth fostering behavior. Child care assistance from friends was related to the display of more detachment and less …
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The Effectiveness of Taped Textbook Materials in Fifth Grade Social Studies Classes
… skills, the reading comprehension, and the cognitive growth or slow-learning children.
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The impact of service-learning on cognitive development
… college students, specifically, students' cognitive development. The cognitive development of students participating in four service-learning sociology courses at a large, southeastern research university was measured using Erwin's (198J.) Scale of Intellectual Development- IV (SID). The …
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Understanding the Appropriateness of Standards on Kindergarten Achievement in California: A Developmental Perspective
… the developmental perspectives about children’s cognitive growth. Specifically, this review identifies the theories and research that stress the significance of understanding the development of cognition and learning in children as a foundation for creating and implementing appropriate …
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Procedure to assess affective change in students enrolled in a culturally oriented food production management course
… relationship of change in affective behavior to cognitive growth, background, and food likes and dislikes was determined. An evaluation instrument was developed to determine cognitive growth during the period of instruction. Background information secured for each subject included sex, race, the …
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A Case Study of Landau Kleffner Syndrome: a Look at Strategies, Experiences, Challenges, and Perceptions of Teachers, Family, and Support Personnel
… and is characterized by a typical language and cognitive growth that retrogresses after three to nine years of age (O'Hare, 2008). Behavioral regression is exhibited by students being physically and verbally aggressive (Ekinci, Isik, & Melek, 2012). Children also depict abnormal …
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Using human examples to teach Mendelian genetic concepts : assessing acquisition and retention
… Task Instrument (PTI) was employed to detect cognitive growth toward the formal operational level of thought.Eighty ninth-grade biology students from Marion High School, Marion, Indiana were used in the study. The students were assigned randomly to two control and two treatment groups. …
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Literacy and dramatic play: storytelling with props increases preschool children's language skills during play
… the greatest influences to children's social and cognitive growth. To examine how literacy influences play, research on the impact of children's literature on dramatic play is reviewed followed by a study that examined how aspects of children's environment may affect children's play. In the …
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"""Movin' Up That Third Grade Hill"": Discourses of Progress and Hybrid Language and Literacy Practices in a ""Mainstream"" Multilingual Classroom"
… of language and literacy---literacy as cognitive growth and the gospel of literacy---are reproduced across three domains: the teacher's personal practice, the larger sociopolitical context in which she works, and her literacy instruction. The teacher's adherence to these discourses of …
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The Interface of Personality Processes and Cognitive Abilities: A Comparative Study of Elderly and Young Adults
… cause and extent of age-related decrements in cognitive performance as well as whether such losses can be ameliorated or not, especially given societal shifts toward increased life expectancies. The present study explored the basis for shifts in personality-ability relationships in adulthood by …
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A Case Study in the Participatory Design of a Collaborative Science-Based Learning Environment
… of design in the practices of users, and growth of users as designers and champions of technology. In the context of educational technology development, these similar consequences of participatory design may lead to more appropriate and effective education systems as well as greater …
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Violence, primary school learning and development in the Cape Flats township of Mitchells Plain: a case study of exposure to violence and its implications for children's' learning and development
… on primary school children's learning and their cognitive and emotional development in two primary schools in the Cape Flats Township of Mitchell's Plain. The research aimed to explore the extent to which exposure to violence impacts not only on these learners' learning and development but also …
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Divergent thinking and hemisphericity
… acknowledged that with an increase in age and cognitive growth comes the ability to better use both cerebral hemispheres. Several limitations were considered in the discussion of the results of this study. These included: insensitivity of tests, attentional factors, the role of memory in the …
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A longitudinal study of the cognitive and social development of preterm infants
… have been shown to have difficulties with cognitive/developmental outcomes, social interaction, security of attachment and are frequently perceived as having a more difficult temperament than their term counterparts. The aim of this study was to address these issues by comparing a group of …
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The child's concept of obesity
… those thoughts about obesity reflect the child's cognitive growth. Piaget's developmental framework was used to demonstrate that the changes which occur in the children's thinking about obesity follow the same developmental lines as their thinking about other problems. The concepts of identity and …
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Sustaining balance: What, why, and how early career literacy teachers utilize sources of information when planning for small guided reading group instruction within a balanced literacy approach
… programs enable them to be in an apt state for cognitive growth once they enter the teaching profession. They have a prior understanding of how to plan for small group reading instruction; however, they may still need scaffolding to fully accomplish this task within their own classroom with …
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Effectiveness of an Inquiry Based Professional Development Program
… in-service programs for teachers should include cognitively engaging activities (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999). This study explored the relationship between student achievement and the level of teacher participation while attending an inquiry-based professional development program. Six teachers at …