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Peer reviewedJackson, Nancy Ewald; Biemiller, Andrew J. – Child Development, 1985
Compared comprehension of kindergarten-age precocious readers (who read at the third-grade level) with second- and third-grade-age children. Results on measures of letter, scrambled word, and text reading times indicated that, for precocious readers, efficiency in lower-order tasks is not a prerequisite for rapid text reading and good…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Gifted, Kindergarten Children, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedSchwanenflugel, Paula J.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined 8- and 10-year olds' understanding of the unique features of and potential relations among mental activities. Found a developing tendency to organize mental activities on the degree to which memory was a component of the activity. Results suggest that a constructivist theory of mind develops in later childhood. (AA)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedSiegal, Michael – Child Development, 1988
Findings of three experiments indicated that preschool children have a more substantial knowledge of contagion and contamination than has been estimated previously. Results are discussed in terms of children's ability to understand causal relations. (RH)
Descriptors: Accidents, Age Differences, Communicable Diseases, Comprehension
Peer reviewedDixon, James A.; Moore, Colleen F. – Child Development, 1990
Examined preschoolers' and second and fifth graders' development of two types of perspective taking: (1) perspective taking based on differences in the information available to two people; and (2) perspective taking based on differences in weighting the same information. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedWolf, Maryanne; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Studies the development of word-retrieval speed and its relationship to reading in 72 average and 11 severely impaired readers in kindergarten through the second grade. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedLovett, Suzanne B.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1990
Assessed first and third graders' and undergraduates' knowledge of strategies appropriate to comprehension and memory. Also assessed their knowledge of task variables affecting comprehension and memorization tasks. Only undergraduates showed understanding of comprehension-memory distinction. Third graders showed some understanding of differential…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comprehension
Peer reviewedConnell, James P. – Child Development, 1985
Describes a new 48-item self-report instrument, the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control, which defines children's perceptions of control as understanding the locus of sufficient cause for success and failure. Three dimensions of third- through ninth-grade children's perceptions of control are assessed within three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
