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Baron, Alex; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Evangelou, Maria; Nesbitt, Kimberly; Farran, Dale – Early Education and Development, 2020
Make-believe play has been theorized to promote self-regulation skills and other positive child outcomes. In this study, we examine the make-believe play approach featured in the "Tools of the Mind" (Tools) early childhood curriculum, which identifies students' self-regulation cultivation among its core programmatic aims. Using data from…
Descriptors: Play, Imagination, Creativity, Self Control
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Pillow, Bradford H.; Pearson, RaeAnne M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2015
Two experiments investigated 1st-, 3rd-, and 5th-grade children's and adults' judgments related to the controllability of cognitive activities, including object recognition, inferential reasoning, counting, and pretending. In Experiment 1, fifth-grade children and adults rated transitive inference and interpretation of ambiguous pictures as more…
Descriptors: Adults, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5