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Peteranderl, Sonja; Edelsbrunner, Peter Adriaan; Deiglmayr, Anne; Schumacher, Ralph; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Building on rich training literature, we examined which skills constituting the control-of-variables strategy (CVS) benefit from a comprehensive training, and which develop similarly during content-focused inquiry at ages 10-12. In addition, we examined whether prior knowledge, reasoning abilities, and reading comprehension explain variation in…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Skill Development, Training, Prior Learning
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Williams, Judy A. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
This study was designed to explore children's understanding of formative assessment and its effects on their learning, in order to establish what learners perceive as important to help them improve their learning. The study found that children have a good understanding of the concepts of feedback, and can articulate clearly the elements most…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Robinson, Katherine M.; Dube, Adam K. – Cognitive Development, 2009
Children's understanding of the inversion concept in multiplication and division problems (i.e., that on problems of the form "d multiplied by e/e" no calculations are required) was investigated. Children in Grades 6, 7, and 8 completed an inversion problem-solving task, an assessment of procedures task, and a factual knowledge task of simple…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Knowledge Level, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment