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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Problem solving in children"”.
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Developmental and Gender Patterns in Social Information Processing: Social Problem-Solving and Social Goals
The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of development and gender in first- through fifth-grade children's (N = 514) social information processing, as well as the role emotion plays in these patterns. Developmental patterns and goal selection have been relatively understudied in past …
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Using Contents and Containers to investigate problem solving strategies among toddlers
1 PDF file (xi, 159 pages)
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A BEHAVIORAL EVALUATION OF A PRESCHOOL INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM
… develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive interpersonal problem solving training program with four and five year old children. The goal of the program was to teach children the necessary skills to successfully resolve problems with their peers. The interpersonal problem solving training …
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Maternal teaching strategies and cognitive tempo in young children
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between cognitive tempo (reflection-impulsivity) in children and specific labeling and focusing behaviors of mothers as they taught their children two problem-solving tasks. Two measures of cognitive tempo were administered to 44 …
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The development of personal, analogous and universal thinking through in-role drama : a case study
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the development of the problem-solving skills of eleven year olds in a Western Australian Primary school when the teacher and the children were in-role within the drama. The teacher, as teacher in-role, and the students role-played a variety of …
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The Direct Teaching of Thinking Skills for Improvement of Reading Test Results
The problem: The purpose of this study was to address the direct teaching of critical thinking and problem solving skills, and to determine if the process benefited fourth grade students by increasing scores on a reading end-of-book test. Procedures: Two similar, but not randomly selected fourth …
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Cylinders and spheres : toddlers engage in problem solving
1 PDF file (vii, 149 pages)
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Understanding how deficits in sub- and higher- order cognitive processes impact problem-solving abilities in childhood
Fluid Intelligence describes the ability to solve complex problems under novel conditions and predicts success in a wide range of areas. The overarching aim of this thesis was to explore the cognitive processes necessary for the completion of complex cognitive tasks in children with and without …
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An examination of the relationships between teaching and learning styles, and the number sense and problem solving ability of Year 7 students
Independent studies of teaching for number sense and problem solving have revealed that teaching for either of them separately poses a great challenge for the teacher. Yet research focusing on the relationship between number sense and problem solving was virtually non-existent, although the …
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The Effect of Individual Versus Collective Creative Problem Solving Experiences on Fourth- and Fifth-grade Students' Compositional Products.
… of the study was to explore the effects that individual vs. collective structured creative musical problem solving tasks had on students' compositional products. Subjects in a convenience sample of 32 fourth-graders and 32 fifth-graders were randomly assigned to either the individual or …