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McGowan, Amanda L.; Gerde, Hope K.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Pontifex, Matthew B. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study examined the associations among meeting 24-hour movement behavior recommendations set by the World Health Organization (2019) and young children's self-regulation and quantity estimation skills in a sample of 123 children (n = 65 female; 4.9 ± 0.7 years) in mid-Michigan. Meeting screen time recommendations…
Descriptors: Motion, Child Behavior, Guidelines, Computation
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Martin, Kit; Horn, Michael; Wilensky, Uri – Informatics in Education, 2019
This paper describes visitor interaction with an interactive tabletop game on the topic of evolutionary adaptations of social insects that we designed in collaboration with a large American museum. We observed visitors playing the game and talked to them about the experience. The game explores the emergent phenomena of ant behavior. Research has…
Descriptors: Incidence, Schemata (Cognition), Museums, Animal Behavior
Martin, Kit; Horn, Michael; Wilensky, Uri – Grantee Submission, 2019
This paper describes visitor interaction with an interactive tabletop game on the topic of evolutionary adaptations of social insects that we designed in collaboration with a large American museum. We observed visitors playing the game and talked to them about the experience. The game explores the emergent phenomena of ant behavior. Research has…
Descriptors: Incidence, Schemata (Cognition), Museums, Animal Behavior
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Kuo, Melissa H.; Orsmond, Gael I.; Coster, Wendy J.; Cohn, Ellen S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study explores how adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use media, and the factors associated with their media use. A total of 91 adolescents with ASD and their parents completed mail-based surveys. In all, 78% of the adolescents with ASD watched television (approximately 2 h/day), and 98% used computers (approximately 5 h/day) on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mass Media Use
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Biagi, Federico; Loi, Massimo – European Journal of Education, 2013
Based on PISA 2009 data, this article studies the relationship between students' computer use and their achievement in reading, mathematics and science in 23 countries. After having categorised computer use into a set of different activities according to the skills they involve, we correlate students' PISA test-scores with an index capturing the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Achievement Rating, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement