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Maintaining a Social-Emotional Intervention and Its Benefits for Institutionalized Children
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McCall, Robert B.; Groark, Christina J.; Fish, Larry; Muhamedrahimov, Rifkat J.; Palmov, Oleg I.; Nikiforova, Natalia V. – Child Development, 2013
This article reports the maintenance of one of the largest interventions conducted in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) orphanages for children birth to 4 years using regular caregiving staff. One orphanage received training plus structural changes, another training only, and a third business as usual. The intervention produced substantial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Young Children, Institutionalized Persons
Understanding of Logical Necessity: Developmental Antecedents and Cognitive Consequences.
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Morris, Anne K.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies of adolescents in England and Russia examined the effects of prolonged instruction on students' development of abstract deductive reasoning and understanding of logical necessity in algebraic and verbal reasoning. Results indicated that prolonged instruction emphasizing the metalevel of algebraic deduction contributed to enhanced…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Deduction, Foreign Countries
Hierarchical Structure of Moral Stages Assessed by a Sorting Task.
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Boom, Jan; Brugman, Daniel; van der Heijden, Peter G. M. – Child Development, 2001
Asked Dutch university and Russian high school students to sort statements in terms of moral sophistication to investigate hierarchical stage structure of moral stages. Found that sorting statements representative of stages below one's own was straightforward; sorting statements above one's stage was difficult, suggesting that reflective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, College Students, Developmental Stages