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The Role of Gender in the Relation among Anxiety, Theory of Mind, and Well-Being in Early Adolescents
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Caputi, Marcella; Bosacki, Sandra – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
The relation between cognition and life satisfaction is shaped by several factors. The present research investigated whether mindreading skills are linked to subjective well-being and anxiety during the transition into adolescence. Specifically, our aim was to investigate individual differences in those constructs and gendered relational patterns.…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Does Perspective Taking Matter for Writing? Perspective Taking in Source-Based Analytical Writing of Secondary Students
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Cho, Minkyung; Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Olson, Carol B. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Perspective taking, one's knowledge of their own mental and emotional states and inferences about others' mental and emotional states, is an important skill for writing development. In the present study, we examined how perspective taking is expressed in writing and how it is related to overall writing quality. We analyzed seventh graders'…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Thinking Skills
Does Perspective Taking Matter for Writing? Perspective Taking in Source-Based Analytical Writing of Secondary Students
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Cho, Minkyung; Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Olson, Carol B. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Perspective taking, one's knowledge of their own mental and emotional states and inferences about others' mental and emotional states, is an important skill for writing development. In the present study, we examined how perspective taking is expressed in writing and how it is related to overall writing quality. We analyzed seventh graders'…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills, Thinking Skills
Using Enactivism as a Methodology to Characterise Algebraic Learning
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Lozano, Maria-Dolores – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
My purpose in this paper is to illustrate the way in which an enactivist methodological approach guided me as I conducted a two-case longitudinal study where the learning of algebra was explored in different contexts throughout time. Three groups of students in two different schools in the city of Puebla, Mexico, were followed from the last year…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Longitudinal Studies, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Growth Mindset of Gifted Seventh Grade Students in Science
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Esparza, Julie; Shumow, Lee; Schmidt, Jennifer A. – NCSSSMST Journal, 2014
Through secondary analysis of data collected in middle school science classrooms, this study (a) compared gifted and regular students' beliefs about the malleability of intelligence in science; (b) investigated whether teaching gifted and talented middle-school students about malleability of the brain and study skills helped them to develop a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Attitudes
Factors Associated with Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension for Typically-Developing Students and for a Pilot Sample of Students Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Weissinger, Kristen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated some of the underlying factors that may relate to and predict the reading comprehension of children in fourth through eighth grade (N = 47). A subset of these children previously had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; n = 10); the remainder are classified as typically-developing (n = 37). The participants…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6