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Children's Comprehension Monitoring and Recall of Inconsistent Stories.
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Zabrucky, Karen; Ratner, Hilary Horn – Child Development, 1986
To examine children's comprehension monitoring (CM) ability more comprehensively, this study treated CM as a complex phenomenon involving multidimensional evaluation and regulation procedures and used several different measures to assess them. Results highlight the sensitivity of different measures and the importance of treating CM as a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Development of Proportional Response Strategies.
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Offenbach, Stuart I.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Examines hypotheses and strategies used by children at the kindergarten, second-, fourth- and sixth-grade levels in making proportional judgements. The task involved 36 trials in which the child had to choose between two groups to obtain a target-color "chip." Results generally conformed to the developmental sequence proposed by Piaget…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Grade 2
Maternal Variables as Predictors of Children's School Readiness and Later Achievement in Vocabulary and Mathematics in Sixth Grade.
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Hess, Robert D.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Longitudinally examines the stability of the association between maternal behavior and preschool children's cognitive abilities. Outcome measures included both school readiness (assessed at ages five and six) and achievement on mathematics and vocabulary subtests of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills at grade six. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Followup Studies