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Chilver-Stainer, Jennifer; Gasser, Luciano; Perrig-Chiello, Pasqualina – Journal of Moral Education, 2014
Children and adolescents with hearing impairments are at risk of being excluded from activities with hearing peers. Moral emotion attributions may represent important indicators for children's identification with the moral norm not to exclude peers based on disability. Against this background, we investigated how 10-, 12- and 15-year-olds…
Descriptors: Children, Social Isolation, Peer Relationship, Hearing Impairments
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Steele, Sara C.; Watkins, Ruth V. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study investigated whether children with language learning disability (LLD) differed from typically-developing peers in their ability to learn meanings of novel words presented during reading. Fifteen 9-11-year-old children with LLD and 15 typically-developing peers read four passages containing 20 nonsense words. Word learning was assessed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Children, Preadolescents
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Roebers, Claudia M.; Schmid, Corinne; Roderer, Thomas – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Within the context of students' self-regulated learning, the interplay between learners' individual characteristics and the context of testing have been emphasized for assessing learning outcomes. Aims: The present study examined metacognitive monitoring and control processes in elementary schoolchildren's test taking behaviour and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Metacognition, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Megalakaki, Olga – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
The objective of this work was to highlight the conceptions of force held by students aged 10-17 years old, in situations where animate and inanimate objects interact. In the proposed experimental situations, we varied parameters such as the motion and position of an object and the agent's effort. We asked questions about both inanimate and…
Descriptors: Motion, Physics, Concept Formation, Preadolescents