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Making Connections among Multiple Graphical Representations of Fractions: Sense-Making Competencies Enhance Perceptual Fluency, but Not Vice Versa
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Rau, Martina A.; Aleven, Vincent; Rummel, Nikol – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Prior research shows that representational competencies that enable students to use graphical representations to reason and solve tasks is key to learning in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. We focus on two types of representational competencies: (1) "sense making" of connections by verbally explaining how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Making Connections among Multiple Graphical Representations of Fractions: Sense-Making Competencies Enhance Perceptual Fluency, but Not Vice Versa
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Rau, Martina A.; Aleven, Vincent; Rummel, Nikol – Grantee Submission, 2017
Prior research shows that representational competencies that enable students to use graphical representations to reason and solve tasks is key to learning in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains. We focus on two types of representational competencies: (1) "sense making" of connections by verbally…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
A Prospective Test of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression in Children
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Gibb, Brandon E.; Alloy, Lauren B. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
Providing a developmental extension of the cognitive theories of depression, researchers and theorists (e.g., Cole & Turner, 1993; Rose & Abramson, 1992) have suggested that during early to middle childhood, attributional styles may mediate rather than moderate the association between negative life events and the development of depression. Within…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Grade 4, Grade 5, Children