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Comparison of Impact of Secular and Religious Education on Children's Factuality Judgements and Problem Solving Strategies
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Kotaman, Hüseyin – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of religious education on Turkish children's "reality status" judgements, reasoning processes and "intercessory beliefs for problem solving." The participants consist of 51 children, 27 of whom are enrolled in a public kindergarten that provides secular education and 24 in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Religious Factors, Beliefs
The Influence of Data on Teachers' Judgments of Students' Early Reading and Math Skills
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McKevett, Nicole M.; Kiss, Allyson J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
Teachers' judgments of student achievement are a crucial aspect of instruction and intervention. Previous research examining teachers' judgments has primarily focused on oral reading fluency and results are mixed with respect to how accurate teachers are. The purpose of the current study was to examine the accuracy of kindergarten and first-grade…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Accuracy, Data Use, Reading Achievement
When Anger Arises in the Interaction with Children in Kindergartens -- The Staff's Reactions to Children's Resistance
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Skoglund, Ruth Ingrid; Åmot, Ingvild – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Research on educational activities generally focuses on the importance of positive emotions in the interaction between teachers and children. This article will focus on the challenging emotions that can arise when kindergarten staff interact with the children. The empirical material has been collected from a qualitative study of conflicts between…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Interaction, Young Children, Kindergarten
Children's Understanding of Second-Order False Belief: Comparisons of Content and Method of Assessment
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Miller, Scott A. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This research examined children's performance on second-order false belief tasks as a function of the content area for the belief and the method of assessing understanding. A total of 70 kindergarten and first-grade children responded to four second-order stories. On two stories, the task was to judge a belief about a belief, and on two, the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Children's Developing Notions of (Im)partiality
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Mills, Candice M.; Keil, Frank C. – Cognition, 2008
This research examines the development of children's understanding that people's judgments may be skewed by relationships, and that situational factors may make it difficult to be impartial. One hundred and seventy-one adults and children between kindergarten and eighth grade heard stories about judges in contests with objective or subjective…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 4, Adults, Children
Impression Formation and Modifiability: Testing a Theoretical Model
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Mrug, Sylvie; Hoza, Betsy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study proposed and tested a developmental model of impression formation based on observed behavior, prior expectancies, and additional incongruent information. Participants were 51 kindergartners, 53 second graders, and 104 college students who provided trait and liking judgments after watching a child actor engage in behaviors from three…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Grade 2, Elementary School Students