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Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma; Tucker, Stephen I.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Maahs-Fladung, Cathy; Symanzik, Juergen; Mahamane, Salif; MacDonald, Beth; Jordan, Kerry – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2015
Part of a larger initiation mixed methods study (Greene, Caracelli, & Graham, 1989), this paper discusses the changes in young children's learning performance and efficiency (one element of the quantitative portion of the larger study) during clinical interviews in which each child interacted with a variety of virtual manipulative…
Descriptors: Young Children, Learning Processes, Efficiency, Numeracy
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Morrison, Frederick J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
The four articles in this issue exemplify several exciting trends in the ongoing effort to understand the nature and sources of children's academic trajectories. Particularly noteworthy is the common thread of searching for key parenting and child mediators of the connection between parental educational accomplishments and child outcomes. In an…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Trend Analysis
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Cooper, Linda Z. – Library Quarterly, 2004
This article describes several sessions of a larger case study that examined cognitive categories for library information in a group of children in kindergarten through grade 4. While the initial motivation for the project was pragmatic in nature, theoretical issues relating to people's cognitive categories for information are examined as well.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Information Science Education