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Seckel, María José; Vásquez, Claudia; Samuel, Marjorie; Breda, Adriana – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Computational thinking in the educational environment has awaken a rising interest, having been included as part of the curricula from the very beginnings of education. Programmable robots have become a valuable positive resource in order to succeed in the development of computational thinking, demanding proper training from kindergarten teachers…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Programming, Ownership, Robotics
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Kondrad, Robyn L.; Jaswal, Vikram K. – Cognitive Development, 2012
Errors differ in degree of seriousness. We asked whether preschoolers would use the magnitude of an informant's errors to decide if that informant would be a good source of information later. Four- and 5-year-olds observed two informants incorrectly label familiar objects, but one informant's errors were closer to the correct answer than the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Novels, Language Acquisition, Semiotics
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Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Fyfe, Emily R.; McLean, Laura E.; McEldoon, Katherine L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Young children have an impressive amount of mathematics knowledge, but past psychological research has focused primarily on their number knowledge. Preschoolers also spontaneously engage in a form of early algebraic thinking-patterning. In the current study, we assessed 4-year-old children's knowledge of repeating patterns on two occasions…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Knowledge Level, Algebra, Thinking Skills