Children’s learning from others: Conformity to unconventional counting

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Oliva Lago ◽  
Purificación Rodríguez ◽  
Ana Escudero ◽  
Cristina Dopico ◽  
Ileana Enesco
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Detection Task ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Counting Rules ◽  
Learning From Others ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Children's Learning

The current study investigated whether children’s conformity to a majority testimony influenced their willingness to revise their own erroneous counting knowledge. The content of the testimonies focused on conventional rules of counting, by means of pseudoerrors (i.e., unconventional counts) occurring during a detection task. In this work measurements were taken at two different time points. At time 1 children aged 5 to 7 years ( N = 88) first made independent judgments on the correctness of unconventional counting procedures presented by means of a computerized detection task. Subsequently, they watched a video in which four teachers (unanimous majority) or three (non-unanimous majority) made correct claims about the counts and children had to decide whether the informants were right or not, and justify their answers. Our participants conformed significantly more when the correct testimony was provided by a unanimous majority than by a non-unanimous majority. In addition, in two of the three pseudoerrors presented, there was no difference in the children’s tendency to conform to unconventional counts as age increased. At time 2, which was taken to test whether the effect of the testimony was maintained over time, the responses of the 32 children (16 from each age group) who had endorsed the claims of the unanimous majority at time 1 revealed that teachers’ testimonies only had a lasting influence on elementary school children’s understanding of conventional counting rules.

scholarly journals A IMPORTÂNCIA DA SONDAGEM DA ESCRITA COMO INSTRUMENTO DE AVALIAÇÃO NO PERÍODO DA ALFABETIZAÇÃO

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-460
Author(s):  
Patrícia Rodrigues Rocha ◽  
Alessandra de Souza Santos
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Experience Report ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Pact ◽  
Writing Analysis ◽  
Children's Learning

Resumo: Este é um relato de experiência sobre a sondagem da escrita realizada com alunos dos três primeiros anos do Ensino Fundamental, uma das atividades propostas pelas Orientadoras de Estudos (OE) do Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa (PNAIC) 2016 Polo Nova Iguaçu/RJ. Nosso objetivo com este relato é acentuar a importância da sondagem da escrita como instrumento de avaliação no período da alfabetização. Aplicamos um ditado para a escrita e leitura imediata pelos alunos das escolas em que atuamos como Orientadoras Pedagógicas. Percebemos significativos avanços na aprendizagem das crianças. Concluímos que tal prática deve ocorrer constantemente em todo o período da alfabetização de modo a mobilizar estratégias de intervenção pelo professor e o desenvolvimento dos alunos.Palavras-chave: Avaliação. Sondagem. Alfabetização. Abstract: This is an experience report on the writing analysis conducted with students of the first three years of elementary school, one of the activities proposed by the Trainers of Studies of the National Pact for Literacy in the Right Age (PNAIC) 2016 Polo Nova Iguaçu / RJ. Our objective with this report is to emphasize the importance of the writing analysis as an evaluation tool in the literacy period. We apply a dictation and an immediate reading of by the students of the schools in which we act as Pedagogical Consuellors. We have seen significant advances in children's learning. We concluded that such practice must occur constantly throughout the period of literacy in order to mobilize intervention strategies of the teacher for the students development.Keywords: Evaluation. Probing. Literacy.

Pocket play: Playful persona as an approach to stress-reduction in an elementary school program

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277
Author(s):  
Erinn Webb
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
School Program ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
School Based ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Children's Learning

Past experiences of trauma can impede children’s learning and success. Playful interactions between skilled counsellors and students can help mitigate the impact of trauma. The author presents case examples of brief drama therapeutic interventions in a school-based program called ALIVE. The article covers the type of persona, qualities and skills cultivated by a counsellor in the ALIVE program, with comparison to medical clowns working in hospitals, pointing out the commonalities, differences and challenges involved.

Interrelations and Correlates over Time in Children's Learning

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold W. Stevenson ◽  
Ann G. Friedrichs ◽  
William E. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Children's Learning

scholarly journals STUDENTS LEARNING ASSISTANCE BY USING CHARTA MEDIA TO BUILD CHILDRENS’ INTEREST ON LEARNING AT RW 10, PELUNGGUT, BATAM

MINDA BAHARU ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Rahmi Rahmi ◽  
Desma Yulia
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Community Service ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Learning Assistance ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Learning Interest ◽  
Children's Learning

This community service aims to increase children’s self-confidence and to build their interest on learning and is one of the self-development activities for children by providing meaningful and varied learning experiences. Based on the survey which did at RW 10 Kelurahan Pelunggut, it was found that children faced some difficulties in completing their homework related to science. In addition, teachers explanation were dominated by conventional method. This is because learning that has been carried out so far in schools, especially elementary school. For elementary school students, the teachers rarely used innovative methods and the learning media used was not maximal yet, so there was a lack of interest on children's learning in understanding scientific concepts and theories. One of the methods used by teachers to increase children's learning interest was by giving a variety of media using charta. The use of this charta media can be done in groups through implementation in the form of an opening procedure, giving material with charta media and evaluation. The results showed that: (1) children were very enthusiastic, when they were told to answer given questions and respond well. (2) The implementation of the service program for children was very beneficial for them, so that the charta media could be applied as learning additional at home to instill children's learning interest in learning science.

scholarly journals Commentary: A Portrait of the Creative Process in Children’s Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Zenia Dusaniwsky
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
South America ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Art Teacher ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Development Of Students ◽  
Children's Learning

In this filmed interview, Zenia Dusaniwsky describes her first teaching assignment in South America over 20 years ago and how she eventually became the art teacher at St. George’s Elementary School in Montreal. She believes that all children can learn, but not necessarily at the same pace or in the same way. She stresses it is important to "highlight mistakes and failures…not as an endpoint but as part of the process."Moreover, she feels that creativity is as critical as literacy in fostering the overall development of students and their ability to take on future life challenges. She concludes by presenting some of her students’ creative art projects.

scholarly journals Children’s Informant Judgments and Recall of Valenced Facts at a Science Center

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly E. Marble ◽  
Jessica S. Caporaso ◽  
Kathleen M. Bettencourt ◽  
Janet J. Boseovski ◽  
Thanujeni Pathman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Positive Information ◽  
Neutral Information ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Learning From Others ◽  
Children's Learning

In laboratory-based research, children recognize who is an expert and demonstrate an interest in learning from that person. However, children prefer positive information in the moment and sometimes prioritize positivity over expertise. To what extent do these social judgments (e.g., a preference for positivity) relate to information that children remember? We investigated the relation between these judgments and memory at a local science center to better understand children’s learning outcomes in naturalistic settings. We examined the extent to which 4- to 8-year-olds accepted facts about an unfamiliar animal from a zookeeper informant (i.e., expert) and a maternal figure (i.e., non-expert) when these facts were positive, negative, or neutral. Children endorsed positive information as correct, regardless of expertise, but demonstrated the strongest memory for neutral information. We discuss the implications of this dissociation for learning outcomes in naturalistic contexts as well as theoretical frameworks regarding children’s learning from others.

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