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John M. Franchak; Kellan Kadooka; Caitlin M. Fausey – Developmental Psychology, 2024
How do age and the acquisition of independent walking relate to changes in infants' everyday experiences? We used a novel ecological momentary assessment (EMA) method to gather caregiver reports of infants' restraint, body position, and object holding via text messages sparsely sampled across multiple days of home life at 10, 11, 12, and 13 months…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Activities, Child Development
Priya Patel; Harsh Pandya; Rajiv Ranganathan; Mei-Hua Lee – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
Manual exploratory behaviors during object interaction that form the basis of tool use behavior, are mostly qualitatively characterized in terms of their frequency and duration of occurrence. To fully understand their functional and clinical significance, quantitative movement characterization is needed alongside their qualitative analysis.…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Toys, Measurement Equipment, Object Manipulation
Supriadi, Amir; Mesnan; Akhmad, Imran; Dewi, Rahma; Suprayitno – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2022
This study aims to improve the ability to catch in children using the ball thrower learning media. The method used in this study was experimental using a one-group pretest-posttest design. The research was conducted using manipulative motion learning to catch the ball using the throwing media. To measure and find out the results of the data…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Multimedia Instruction, Elementary School Students, Physical Education
Hiromichi Hagihara; Mikako Ishibashi; Yusuke Moriguchi; Yuta Shinya – Developmental Science, 2024
Scale errors are intriguing phenomena in which a child tries to perform an object-specific action on a tiny object. Several viewpoints explaining the developmental mechanisms underlying scale errors exist; however, there is no unified account of how different factors interact and affect scale errors, and the statistical approaches used in the…
Descriptors: Measurement, Error of Measurement, Meta Analysis, Data Analysis
Hulston, Samantha Jayne – Literacy, 2023
This article uses the concept of literacy-as-event to explore the embodied meaning-making of a young child during small world play. Recent developments in literacy research, influenced by relational thinking, have led to a reconsideration of how meaning-making unfolds in home and school settings. The concept of literacy-as-event suggests that…
Descriptors: Literacy, Language Acquisition, Play, Narration
Ella C. Schoenen; Julie C. Martinez; Paulina Grekov; Kathleen B. Aspiranti; David Hulac – Education and Treatment of Children, 2024
Fidget devices are often used in classrooms to help students move their bodies while attending to academic or behavioral directives. Devices range from small handheld tools such as spinners and tangle puzzles to larger full-body devices such as exercise balls. The current study provides a meta-analysis of the effects of fidget devices as academic…
Descriptors: Students, Sensory Aids, Manipulative Materials, Object Manipulation
Lauren C. Pagano; Riley E. George; David H. Uttal; Catherine A. Haden – Child Development, 2024
This study addressed whether combining tinkering with digital storytelling (i.e., narrating and reflecting about experiences to an imagined audience) can engender engineering learning opportunities. Eighty-four families with 5- to 10-year-old (M = 7.69) children (48% female children; 57% White, 11% Asian, 6% Black) watched a video introducing a…
Descriptors: Children, Engineering Education, Object Manipulation, Educational Technology
Zahid Zufar At Thaariq; Fikri Aulia; Reno Nurdiyanto; Jasmine Nurul Izza; Devi Mariya Sulfa; Alby Aruna; Dhimas Adhitya Wijanarko – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This article investigates the incorporation of loose parts as a means to enhance student creativity within educational environments. Loose parts refer to flexible, movable objects that can be manipulated, combined, and repurposed in various ways. The study delves into the theoretical underpinnings that support the connection between loose parts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Manipulative Materials, Object Manipulation
Wynberg, Elizabeth R.; Boland, Annerieke; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J.; van der Veen, Chiel – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
The exploration and/or manipulation of objects and materials, referred to as object-oriented play (OOP), is one of the most prominent activities children engage in during early childhood. Especially within early childhood education, it is important to be able to assess and understand OOP, its developmental trajectory, and developmental value. This…
Descriptors: Play, Object Manipulation, Young Children, Child Development
Yanyun Zhou; Bernhard Hommel – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Previous studies found that bodily states have an impact on divergent thinking, but it remains to be seen how generalizable this effect could be, how exactly it depends on cognitive control, and whether similar effects can be found on convergent thinking. To address these questions, we examined the bodily state effect on divergent thinking,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Human Body
Eliza L. Congdon – Child Development, 2024
Why is instructional gesture ineffective in some contexts? And what is it about learners that predicts whether they will learn from gestures? This between-subjects linear measurement training study compares gesture instruction to two controls--operant action and transient action--in a diverse sample of first-grade students (N = 174, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Nonverbal Communication, Grade 1
Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Repetition is a salient strategy used by human and non-human cohorts for learning and controlling behavior. It this research project, a case study was conducted to explore deliberate voluntary repetition in younger cohorts during their spontaneous solitary play with single or multiple objects. Two main types of repetition -- blocked and random --…
Descriptors: Repetition, Play, Infants, Object Manipulation
Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The current study is the first to examine the role of exploration in play milestones development using a multi-measure micro-analytic approach. Fifteen infants, between the ages of 8 and 17 months, were observed in their natural home environment once a month for a one--hour session; their spontaneous mouthing and fingering and their play level…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Play, Discovery Learning
Mercedes T. Oliva; Benjamin C. Storm – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2023
Research has shown that using the Internet to access information can influence memory, metacognition, and how people choose to access information in the future. The current experiment sought to expand this line of work by investigating the impact of using the Internet on creative thinking. A total of 378 participants completed a version of the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Internet, Thinking Skills, Access to Information
Johnson, Nicole E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This work addresses visual content accessibility for blind and low vision communities through the lenses of technique development and community engagement with an overarching question of "How can we make tactile pictures more available?" This inquiry takes a participatory, action-based design approach to break this question down based on…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Object Manipulation, Manipulative Materials, Photography