Block Talk: Spatial Language During Block Play     

Katrina Ferrara  Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek  Nora S. Newcombe  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  Wendy Shallcross Lam 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2011,5(3):143-151

Spatial skills are a central component of intellect and show marked individual differences. There is evidence that variations in the spatial language young children hear, which directs their attention to important aspects of the spatial environment, may be one of the mechanisms that contributes to these differences. To investigate how play affects variations in language, parents and children were assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: free play with blocks, guided play, or play with preassembled structures (Study 1). Parents in the guided play condition produced significantly higher proportions of spatial talk than parents in the other two conditions, and children in the guided play condition produced significantly more spatial talk than those in the free play condition. Study 2 established baselines of spatial language during activities not involving spatial materials. Proportions of spatial words were lower than those in any of the conditions of Experiment 1. In sum, interaction with blocks naturally elicits elevated levels of spatial language, especially in the context of guided play, suggesting simple‐to‐execute educational interventions.  相似文献   

Environmental Education and Complexity     

Pereira  Brenda Braga  Silva  Luciano Fernandes  dos Santos  Janaina Roberta 《Science & Education》2022,31(1):1-20

Science & Education - The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze meanings that the term complexity assumes in Brazilian theses and dissertations in the field of environmental...  相似文献   

Predictors of Success in Individuals with Learning Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis of a 20‐Year Longitudinal Study     

Roberta J. Goldberg  Eleanor L. Higgins  Marshall H. Raskind  Kenneth L. Herman 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2003,18(4):222-236

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Global health database     

Fitzpatrick RB 《Medical reference services quarterly》2006,25(2):59-67

The Global Health database is available from Ovid Technologies, Inc., and also from CABI Publishing, EBSCO, and DataStar/ DIALOG. This database is really the combination of two others--the Public Health and Tropical Medicine database, formerly produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, as well as human health and diseases information that is extracted from the CAB Abstracts database. This column will provide readers with an overview of the Global Health database, as well as present some searching hints. The Ovid interface will be used.  相似文献   

Within and Across Language Predictors of Word Learning Processes in Dual Language Learners     

Amy Pace  Rufan Luo  Dani Levine  Aquiles Iglesias  Jill de Villiers  Roberta M. Golinkoff  Mary S. Wilson  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek 《Child development》2021,92(1):35-53

This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners’ (N = 90) vocabulary and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3-through-5 years). Of interest was whether: (a) performance in Spanish correlated with performance in English within each domain; and (b) comprehension predicted novel word learning within and across languages. Dual-language experience was evaluated as a potential moderator. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed stronger predictive associations within each language than across languages. Across languages, results varied by experience and domain. Structural sensitivity theory suggests exposure to two languages heightens awareness of parameters along which languages vary and provides a framework for interpreting complex associations within and across languages. Knowledge from one language may influence learning in both.  相似文献   

Electrophysiological Evidence of Space-Number Associations in 9-Month-Old Infants     

Roberta Bettoni  Margaret Addabbo  Hermann Bulf  Viola Macchi Cassia 《Child development》2021,92(5):2142-2152

Infant research is providing accumulating evidence that number-space mappings appear early in development. Here, a Posner cueing paradigm was used to investigate the neural mechanisms underpinning the attentional bias induced by nonsymbolic numerical cues in 9-month-old infants (N = 32). Event-related potentials and saccadic reaction time were measured to the onset of a peripheral target flashing right after the offset of a centered small or large numerical cue, with the location of the target being either congruent or incongruent with the number’s relative position on a left-to-right oriented representational continuum. Results indicated that the cueing effect induced by numbers on infants’ orienting of eye gaze brings about sensory facilitation in processing visual information at the cued location.  相似文献   

Memorial: The Social Construction of Rob Kling     

Roberta Lamb 《The Information Society》2003,19(3):195-196

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Portfolios, Accountability, and an Interpretive Approach to Validity   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pamela A. Moss  Jamie Sue Beck  Catherine Ebbs  Barbara Matson  James Muchmore  Dorothy Steele  Caroline Taylor  Roberta Herter 《Educational Measurement》1992,11(3):12-21

How can the results of classroom-based portfolio assessment be communicated outside the classroom? How might a portfolio-based assessment system be designed and implemented? How can we evaluate the merits of portfolio-based assessments?  相似文献   

Infant Proneness-to-Distress Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Mother-Infant Attachment: Associations and Goodness of Fit   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

Sarah Mangelsdorf  Megan Gunnar  Roberta Kestenbaum  Sarah Lang  Debra Andreas 《Child development》1990,61(3):820-831

66 mother-infant pairs were examined when the infants were 9 and 13 months. The purpose of this report was to examine relations between infant proneness-to-distress temperament, maternal personality characteristics, and mother-infant attachment. There were no main-effect relations between infant proneness-to-distress temperament as assessed at 9 months and infant attachment classification at 13 months. This was true whether security of attachment (A and C vs. B) or proposed temperament (A1-B2 vs. B3-C2) groupings of attachment classifications were examined. Infant proneness-to-distress temperament, however, was associated with maternal behavior and personality. Furthermore, security of attachment could be predicted by an interaction between maternal personality and infant proneness-to-distress. The importance of considering goodness-of-fit relations in predicting attachment security is discussed.  相似文献   

VI. Is 12-Month-Old Word Learning Domain-General, Socially Determined, or Emergent?     

George Hollich  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2000,65(3):85-100

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