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Greenstock, Jemma; Pipe, Margaret-Ellen – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1996
This study investigated the influence of peer support and leading or misleading questions on reports of a neutral event by 48 children (ages 5 to 10). Younger children made significantly more errors in response to directly misleading questions than to indirectly misleading questions. Peer support did not influence children's prompted recall…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Error Patterns, Interviews
Tirre, William C. – 1983
A common error in children's attempts to solve verbal analogies is to respond with a word strongly associated with the third term in the analogy. This is known as associative response. A study was conducted to investigate the cognitive processes underlying this response. Subjects, 112 fifth grade students, were administered a battery of tests…
Descriptors: Analogy, Associative Learning, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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van Daal, Victor H. P.; van der Leij, Aryan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study with 28 Netherlands children (mean age 9 years, 7 months) with written language disorders found that copying words from the computer screen resulted in significantly fewer spelling errors on the posttest than writing words from memory and that both these forms of practice led to fewer spelling errors than only reading the words.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Error Patterns