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Vernucci, Santiago; García-Coni, Ana; Zamora, Eliana Vanesa; Gelpi-Trudo, Rosario; Andrés, María Laura; Canet-Juric, Lorena – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to rapidly and accurately switch between tasks. It is regarded as a core dimension of executive functions and has been reported to improve during childhood and into early adulthood. For its evaluation, the task-switching paradigm is widely used. Switching between tasks or response sets imposes a series…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Change
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Alain Fritsch; Virginie Voltzenlogel; Christine Cuervo-Lombard – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Little research has examined changes in personal identity over different periods of adult development. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to target these changes through the characterization of the main dimensions in self-defining memories (SDMs; thematic content, specificity, integrative meaning, tension, contamination/redemption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Young Adults, Older Adults
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Yusuke Moriguchi; Chifumi Sakata; Xianwei Meng; Naoya Todo – SAGE Open, 2024
A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has spread widely throughout the world. To reduce the spread of infection, children are prevented from going to school and have fewer opportunities for in-person communication. Such changes in the everyday lives of children might influence their socio-emotional behaviors; however, the whole picture of the possible…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Child Behavior, Foreign Countries, Children
Marjolein E. A. Barendse; Jessica Flannery; Caitlin Cavanagh; Melissa Aristizabal; Stephen P. Becker; Estelle Berger; Rosanna Breaux; Nicole Campione-Barr; Jessica A. Church; Eveline A. Crone; Ronald E. Dahl; Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Sarah L. Dziura; Suzanne van de Groep; Tiffany C. Ho; Sarah E. Killoren; Joshua M. Langberg; Tyler L. Larguinho; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Kalina J. Michalska; Jordan L. Mullins; Hanna Nadel; Blaire M. Porter; Mitchell J. Prinstein; Elizabeth Redcay; Amanda J. Rose; Wendy M. Rote; Amy K. Roy; Sophie W. Sweijen; Eva H. Telzer; Giana I. Teresi; April Gile Thomas; Jennifer H. Pfeifer – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9-18 years old, 59% female) from three countries. We also examined if age, race/ethnicity, disease burden, or strictness of government restrictions moderated change in…
Descriptors: Change, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Amundsen, Diana – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This article draws on the concept of structural lag to expand the notion of transitions in higher education contexts beyond linear and age-differentiated. Research reported here responds to scholars who are taking theories of transition into conceptually new landscapes. Using a rhizomic data analysis of a doctoral research project, the idea of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Doctoral Students, Research Projects, Student Experience
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Ellison, Lynn; Jones, Dawn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
This article describes an action research project that was undertaken to address a poor progression rate at the end of the first year of a single honours law degree. An attainment gap due to gender, age and ethnicity was also noted. The students were predominantly assessed by examinations; therefore a change of assessment to coursework and…
Descriptors: Law Students, Student Evaluation, Change, Gender Differences
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Bitsika, Vicki; Sharpley, Christopher; Arnold, Wayne – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
The sources of anxiety for a sample of 132 young males with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were investigated from standardised scales and verbal responses to a series of open-ended questions asked to them and their mothers. As well as using parametric statistics to test for effects on standardised scales, verbal responses were analysed via NVivo…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Males, Anxiety
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Sealey, Lyndsay; Mitchell, Annie – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2019
Composing Territory is a research project with two main aims. The first aim is to identify optimal composition and arrangement techniques for choral works written for female singers from various linguistic backgrounds in the Northern Territory whose voices are undergoing pubertal changes. The second aim is the creation of twelve choral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, Music Activities, Females
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Atance, Cristina M.; Caza, Julian S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
An important aspect of perspective-taking ability is the appreciation that mental states such as beliefs, desires, and knowledge change over time. The current study focused specifically on 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' understanding that they will have knowledge in the future that they do not currently possess--for example, that when they are…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Evaluative Thinking, Knowledge Level, Change
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Lee, Soo Jeung; Jung, Hyejoo; Shin, Jung Cheol – Higher Education Forum, 2020
This study analyzed the association between academic identity, job satisfaction and stress over the last three decades. This study found that most Korean academics have a dual identity as researcher and teacher but tend to prefer research to teaching. In addition, we found that performance-based management practices at universities have…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Professional Identity, Stress Variables, Change
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Cho, Yeonsuk; Blood, Ian A. – Language Testing, 2020
In this study, we examined how much change in "TOEFL® Primary™" listening and reading scores can be expected in relation to the time interval between test administrations. The test records of 5213 young learners of English (aged 8-13 years) in Japan and Turkey who repeated the tests were analyzed to examine test scores as a function of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Scores
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Cheng, Sanyin; Zhang, Li-fang – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
This study explores how university students' thinking styles changed over a single academic year by twice administering the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II to 256 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and 286 hearing students from art and design academic disciplines in China. Results showed that after having studied at the university for one…
Descriptors: College Students, Thinking Skills, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Engen, Mie; Fallov, Mia Arp; Jensen, Rune Hagel Skaarup; Jensen, Julie Borup; Ravn, Ole – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This article presents the main findings of an applied research project, which studied student experiences of the challenges and opportunities of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in two master programmes (MPs) at Aalborg University (AAU) characterised by diverse student groups, who bring different educational backgrounds, skills and experiences to the…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Problem Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Weiss, David; Job, Veronika; Mathias, Maya; Grah, Stephanie; Freund, Alexandra M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Beliefs about aging influence how we interpret and respond to changes within and around us. Essentialist beliefs about aging are defined as views that link chronological age with inherent and immutable properties underlying aging-related changes. These beliefs may influence the experience of aging-related changes and shape people's outlook of the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Futures (of Society), Time Perspective, Philosophy
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Buchan, Heather; Jones, Caroline – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Segmental variation in maternal speech to children changes over time. This study investigated variation in non-citation speech processes in a longitudinal, 26-hour corpus of maternal northern Australian English. Recordings were naturalistic parent-child interactions when children (N = 4) were 1;6, 2;0, and 2;6. The mothers' speech was phonetically…
Descriptors: Phonology, Mothers, Speech, English
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