The Role of Age, Cognitive Ability, and ADHD Symptoms on Outcomes of Attention Training in Primary School Children

Author(s):  
H. E. Kirk ◽  
S. Richmond ◽  
K. M. Cornish ◽  
M. Spencer-Smith
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Marije Stolte ◽  
Trinidad García ◽  
Johannes E. H. Van Luit ◽  
Bob Oranje ◽  
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen

The goal of the current study was to investigate the role of executive functions in mathematical creativity. The sample included 278 primary school children (ages 8–13). Two models were compared: the starting model tested whether executive functions (shifting, updating, and inhibition), domain-general creativity, and mathematical ability directly predicted mathematical creativity. The second model, which fitted the data best, included the additional assumption that updating influences mathematical creativity indirectly through mathematical ability and domain-general creativity. Updating was positively related to mathematical creativity. Additionally, updating was positively related to mathematical ability and domain-general creativity. Inhibition, shifting, domain-general creativity and mathematical ability did not have a significant contribution to either model but did positively correlate with mathematical creativity. This study reports the first empirical evidence that updating is a predictor of mathematical creativity in primary school children and demonstrates that creativity is a higher order cognitive process, activating a variety of cognitive abilities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Broadbent ◽  
Tamsin Osborne ◽  
Natasha Kirkham ◽  
Denis Mareschal

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. e0125642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Mimura ◽  
Taro Kamigaki ◽  
Yoshihiro Takahashi ◽  
Takamichi Umenai ◽  
Mataka Kudou ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Gustafsson ◽  
G Thernlund ◽  
J Besjakov ◽  
MK Karlsson ◽  
I Ericsson ◽  
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Author(s):  
Maryam Jalali

Transmission of values and religious concepts to children is one of the most important issues in the third millennium and it has drawn varied and different views among experts and scholars in the world. Research specialized in religious literature for children and adolescents create new capacities in the presentation of religious concepts to the group. Plans have been considered to transfer values and religious concepts in the curricula of primary school children in the group in Iran. It is one of the topics that the authors note to the introduction of the minutiae of religion in the first three elementary grades. In this study, the collection and analysis methods providing content related to the minutiae of religion in reading books the first till third sections of the years 2013-2015. In addition, the plan includes aspects of other branches of religion in these books on information collected from text books that collected and classified. The result is that "definitely good and forbidding the evil" and "prayer" have the highest frequency of applications in the selected books. Further branches made of branches of religion in these books, represents the values of religious, moral and social as well.


2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Bowes ◽  
Barbara Maughan ◽  
Harriet Ball ◽  
Sania Shakoor ◽  
Isabelle Ouellet-Morin ◽  
...  

AbstractWe investigated the antecedents and consequences of chronic victimization by bullies across a school transition using a genetically sensitive longitudinal design. Data were from the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), an epidemiological cohort of 2,232 children. We used mothers' and children's reports of bullying victimization during primary school and early secondary school. Children who experienced frequent victimization at both time points were classed as “chronic victims” and were found to have an increased risk for mental health problems and academic difficulties compared to children who were bullied only in primary school, children bullied for the first time in secondary school, and never-bullied children. Biometric analyses revealed that stability in victimization over this period was influenced primarily by genetic and shared environmental factors. Regression analyses showed that children's early characteristics such as preexistent adjustment difficulties and IQ predicted chronic versus transitory victimization. Family risk factors for chronic victimization included socioeconomic disadvantage, low maternal warmth, and maltreatment. Our results suggest that bullying intervention programs should consider the role of the victims' behaviors and family background in increasing vulnerability to chronic victimization. Our study highlights the importance of widening antibullying interventions to include families to reduce the likelihood of children entering a pathway toward chronic victimization.


Author(s):  
Janis Dzerviniks ◽  
Alise Ārgule

The problem of the research: there is rather small proportion of pupils with high nature studies results in Latvia, and it continues to decrease. That is evaluated as a negative factor of national economy future development. The aim of the research: to research connection between elements of bionics and learning content of primary school, and to analyze its significance for nature studies learning process improvement and facilitation of primary school children cognitive action. To achieve the aim of the research, the authors researched the learning content of the nature studies and the role of bionics in improvement of primary school nature study learning process. Authors was clarified the opinion of the primary school teachers about the integration of the elements of bionics into nature studies learning process for facilitation of primary school children cognitive action.


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