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Mengtian Xia; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Child Development, 2024
Children tend to overestimate their performance on a variety of tasks and activities. The present meta-analysis examines the specificity of this phenomenon across age, tasks, and more than five decades of historical time (1968-2021). Self-overestimation was operationalized as the ratio between children's prospective self-estimates of task…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Ability, Performance
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Nguyen, Vivian; Versyp, Otto; Cox, Christopher; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2022
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi-level meta-analysis, we map the trajectory of infants' turn-taking abilities over the course of early development (0 to 70 months). We synthesize the evidence from 26 studies (78 estimates from 429 unique…
Descriptors: Child Development, Meta Analysis, Infants, Reaction Time
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Ulferts, Hannah; Wolf, Katrin M.; Anders, Yvonne – Child Development, 2019
This meta-analysis studies the association of pedagogical processes in early childhood care and education with outcomes in two academic domains: language and literacy as well as mathematics. It synthesizes evidence from 17 longitudinal studies in nine European countries with 16,461 children in regular center-based care spanning the period between…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies