A5048990024- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Language and cultural evolution
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Language Development and Disorders
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Problem and Project Based Learning
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Various Chemistry Research Topics
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Teaching and Learning Programming
University of Cambridge
2014-2024
University of Pittsburgh
2006-2008
Virginia Commonwealth University
2008
University of Warwick
2002-2005
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2003
University of Sussex
2002
Although Asian preschoolers acquire executive functions (EFs) earlier than their Western counterparts, little is known about whether this advantage persists into later childhood and adulthood. To address gap, in the current study we gave four computerized EF tasks (providing measures of inhibition, working memory, cognitive flexibility, planning) to a large sample ( n = 1,427) 9- 16-year-olds parents. All participants lived either United Kingdom or Hong Kong. Our findings highlight...
Abstract Debates concerning the types of representations that aid reading acquisition have often been influenced by relationship between measures early phonological awareness (the ability to process speech sounds) and later ability. Here, a complementary approach is explored, analyzing how functional utility different representational units, such as whole words, bodies (letters representing vowel final consonants syllable), graphemes phoneme) may change number words can be read gradually...
It is common knowledge that physical activity leads to physiological and psychological benefits. The current study explored the association between self-regulation longitudinally indirect relationship this may have on academic achievement, using secondary data primary school children from Millennium Cohort Study, a cohort of infants born in 2000–2001 United Kingdom. There are two main findings. First, there positive link emotional (not behavioural) regulation both concurrently across all...
Cognitive flexibility (CF) enables individuals to readily shift from one concept or mode of practice/thoughts another in response changes the environment and feedback, making CF vital optimise success obtaining goals. However, how relates other executive functions (e.g., working memory, inhibition), mental abilities creativity, literacy, numeracy, intelligence, structure learning), social factors multilingualism, tolerance uncertainty, perceived support, decision-making) is less well...
Abstract Gene expression is a difficult topic for students to learn and comprehend, at least partially because it involves various biochemical structures processes occurring the microscopic level. Designer Bacteria, design‐based learning (DBL) unit high‐school students, applies principles of DBL teaching gene expression. Throughout 8‐week unit, genetically engineer bacteria meet need in their own lives. Through series investigations, discussions, design modifications, about molecular...
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are used extensively as undergraduate science lab instructors at universities, yet they often have having minimal instructional training and little is known about effective methods. This blind randomized control trial study assessed the impact of two regimens on GTA effectiveness. GTAs biology labs (n = 52) completed five hours in either inquiry-based learning pedagogy or general "best practices". effectiveness was evaluated using: (1) a nine-factor...
Computational thinking (CT) is an emerging and multifaceted competence important to the computing era. However, despite growing consensus that CT a domain, its theoretical empirical account remain scarce in current literature. To address this issue, rigorous psychometric evaluation procedures were adopted investigate structure of competency, as measured by Thinking Challenge (Lai, 2021a), large sample 1,130 British secondary school students ( M age = 14.14 years, SD 1.45). Based on model...
Abstract It has been suggested that external and/or internal limitations paradoxically may lead to superior learning, is, the concepts of starting small and less is more (Elman, ; Newport, ). In this paper, we explore type incremental ordering during training might help what mechanism explains facilitation. We report four artificial grammar learning experiments with human participants. Experiments 1a 1b found a beneficial effect using two types simple recursive grammars: right‐branching...
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This article gives a reflective account of lessons learned from the experiences three cognitive developmental scientists conducting psychological research in educational settings. First, we describe and analyze four key cultural distinctions between traditional approaches to psychology education: 1) different structures, 2) philosophies, 3) time frames, 4) semantics. Valuing understanding rationale behind differing views education is vital for creating effective collaborations. Second, how...
In the fields of education, sociology and economics, there is a long-standing connection between socioeconomic status (SES) school outcomes in wide variety cultural settings, but these studies have yet to examine possible mediating effects domain-general cognitive factors such as executive functions (EF). Addressing this gap building on evidence for links EF numeracy, current cross-cultural study used large sample (N = 835) 9- 16-year-old children from Hong Kong United Kingdom independence...
Individuals have difficulty changing their causal beliefs in light of contradictory evidence. We hypothesized that this arises because people facing implausible causes give greater consideration to alternatives, which, use a positive test strategy, leads differential weighting contingency Across 4 experiments, participants learned about plausible or outcomes. Additionally, we assessed the effects participants' ability think alternative Participants either saw complete frequency information...