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Metcalf, Jennifer L.; Atance, Cristina M. – Cognitive Development, 2011
Using a new paradigm for measuring children's saving behaviors involving two marble games differing in desirability, we assessed whether 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds saved marbles for future use, saved increasingly on a second trial, saved increasingly with age, and were sensitive to the relative value of future rewards. We also assessed whether…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Models, Rewards, Cognitive Development
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Pishghadam, Reza; Ghadiri, Sanaz – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2011
This study seeks to investigate the impact of symmetrical (S) and Asymmetrical (AS) scaffolding, which are two types of scaffolding, on students' reading comprehension achievement of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The study was done in two phases: In the first phase after administering a Pre-test, 52 homogeneous intermediate students were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement