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Intervention in the Home Literacy Environment and Kindergarten Children's Vocabulary and Phonological Awareness
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Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang – First Language, 2017
Children develop linguistic competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Consequently, one way to support this development is by enhancing the home literacy environment (HLE) in which children live. In this study a non-intensive intervention procedure was developed to improve HLE and linguistic competencies of 125 German…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Vocabulary Development
Symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Home Learning Environment (HLE): Findings from a Longitudinal Study
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Schmiedeler, Sandra; Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014
The concept of "Home Learning Environment" (HLE) covers activities in a family providing intellectual stimulation for a child, such as reading to him or her or visiting libraries. Numerous studies have shown an association between HLE and children's cognitive development. In this longitudinal study, we focus on HLE as a predictor for…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Family Environment, Longitudinal Studies
Self-Paced Study Time as a Cue for Recall Predictions across School Age
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Hoffmann-Biencourt, Anja; Lockl, Kathrin; Schneider, Wolfgang; Ackerman, Rakefet; Koriat, Asher – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
Recent work on metacognition indicates that monitoring is sometimes based itself on the feedback from control operations. Evidence for this pattern has not only been shown in adults but also in elementary schoolchildren. To explore whether this finding can be generalized to a wide range of age groups, 160 participants from first to eighth grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cues, Metacognition, Recall (Psychology)
Factors Influencing the Incidence of Utilization Deficiencies and Other Patterns of Recall/Strategy-Use Relations in a Strategic Memory Task
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Schwenck, Christina; Bjorklund, David F.; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2007
Factors that influence the incidence of utilization deficiencies and other recall/strategy-use patterns on a strategic memory task were evaluated in two hundred and fourteen 7- and 9-year-old children. Both utilization deficiencies and the incidence of children showing increases in both recall and strategy use over phases were more likely to be…
Descriptors: Incidence, Influences, Children, Recall (Psychology)
Developmental and Individual Differences in Young Children's Use and Maintenance of a Selective Memory Strategy
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Schwenck, Christina; Bjorklund, David F.; Schneider, Wolfgang – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Children who were 4 to 8 years of age were asked to perform a sort-recall task where only half of the items had to be studied and remembered. Following a baseline trial, children were assigned to 1 of 3 groups and were prompted to use either a sorting or a clustering strategy (experimental groups) or were not prompted at all (control group).…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Individual Differences, Memory
Children's Understanding of Cognitive Cuing: How to Manipulate Cues to Fool a Competitor.
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Sodian, Beate; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 1990
Investigated four to six year olds' understanding of cognitive cuing in two experiments that used a strategic interaction paradigm. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Metacognition
Migrantenkinder in Deutschen Schulen. Eine Studie zur Personlichkeitsentwicklung (Migrant Children in German Schools. A Study on Personality Development).
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Roebers, Claudia M.; Mecheril, Anita; Schneider, Wolfgang – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1998
Examines the impact of migration on the personality and character formation of migrant children in comparison with native-school children. Of migrant children, finds a drop in school-related self-confidence and a short-term interruption of personality stablization. Patterns of student characteristics, grades, and achievement tests demonstrate…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students