The Effects of Intervention in Seriation from the “Bright Start” Program on the Development of Seriational-Mathematical Thinking of Israeli Kindergarteners of Ethiopian and Russian Origin

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-176
Author(s):  
Riva Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Cognitive Change ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group

The author examined the effect of teaching the Pattern and Sequence (useriation) unit from the intervention program Bright Start on the development of seriational mathematical thinking in kindergartners of Israeli, Ethiopian, and Russian origin. In addition, the author examined the effect of the teaching of this unit on the capacity for cognitive change in this area within the study group of children. Bright Start is a plan for the development of thinking in early childhood. This program, developed by Haywood, Brooks, and Burns (1986, 1992), is based on four developmental theories:(a) Feuerstein’s theory of structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning experience; (b) Piaget’s stages theory of cognitive development; (c) Vygotsky’s social-historical theory of cognitive development; Haywood’s transactional perspective on human abilities.This study was focused on one unit of the program, the unit dealing with the development of seriational thinking. The teaching of this unit, like the remaining units in the program, is based on the mediational teaching style. The main emphasis of the study was placed on the comparison of three groups of different origin in Israel; therefore, no control group was examined.40 kindergartners from a disadvantaged area in Israel’s central region were examined, of whom 9 were native Israelis, 11 were of Russian origin, and 20 were of Ethiopian origin. The chidren were given several tests before and after the program. The examination consisted of three stages. At the beginning of the school year, the children underwent three tests to assess their ability to solve problem tasks when creating series with different elements. Subsequently, the intervention plan was taught with the aim of fostering cognitive skills of planning, comparison, relating to several sources of information, and restraining impulsiveness. Towards the end of the year, the children were again examined, and they underwent the three tests that they had done in the beginning of the year, checking their ability to solve tasks when creating series with different elements. In addition, the extent of internalization of the various skills was examined, as well as the capacity to apply skills to the area of arithmetic.As stated, this study focused on children of Ethiopian and Russian origin in comparison to native Israeli children. The decision to focus on children of Ethiopian origin derived from gaps that emerged in the learning process of this population as a result of the cultural difference that characterizes it. The children of Russian origin were part of the kindergarten’s population. They too manifested gaps as a result of cultural and social changes occurring among immigrants from the former Soviet Union.The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that intervention in specific thinking processes—in this case seriation from Bright Start at kindergarten age—will result in greater effectiveness and a significant cognitive ability to change in this area, particularly in children of Ethiopian origin whose initial cognitive level was poor. The hypothesis was confirmed that the children of Ethiopian descent did indeed evince initial inferiority visa-vis the other two groups, but after the intervention program they improved their performance and narrowed the gaps in comparison to the other groups. It is noteworthy that, according to the theory, cognitive processes are not related to any particular content or culture, but are suited to everyone. These processes were found to be beneficial to all of the children, but the cognitive change in seriational thinking as a result of the intervention program was particularly conspicuous in children of Russian origin.The effect of the intervention program was expressed in the ability to apply acquired skills to unstudied areas. Internalization of cognitive skills was apparent, as was the improved ability to comprehend a series and the acquisition of mathematical skills in all of the kindergarten children.The findings of this study have didactic implications relating to the significance of teaching seriation to kindergarten children. In addition, the study indicates the need for early education programs adapted to the population of children of Ethiopian and Russian origin in Israel.

scholarly journals EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: A MAJOR LEVER FOR THE HEALTHY AND BALANCED DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Ihsane DAHANE
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Scholastic Success

The early childhood is considered as one of the decisive stages in a child’s life. It’s viewed as the first building block that shapes the child’s personality in all its aspects, as this is when the child begins to deal with his external surrounding. Moreover, during this period the child's awareness grows towards autonomy. He starts to rely on himself in his actions and movement confidently. What the child experiences in his first years, shapes all his upcoming learnings. For instance, during the preschool, the child starts acquiring new principles and grasps some abstract concepts like solidarity, participation, socialization … The institution also works on promoting all the skills which are related to artistic creativity, recreational and educational activities. And since the intervention at this stage has a great impact on the child’s scholastic success, Its consequences positively affect the child’s health and behavior, as well as his cognitive and mental development. Thus, the recent studies have shed light on the child's cognitive development in early stages. And focused mainly on understanding and identifying the factors affecting this development. A reference should be made that the child's cognitive development is crucially related scholastic success. That’s to say, by promoting the executive functions (inhibition - cognitive flexibility – memory – planning and organizing…) at the very early childhood stage is regarded as the cornerstone for building a child’s cognitive skills and acquiring social behavior. This research study aims to explore the children’s executive functions state at their early childhood stage (preschool children) in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses which needs intervention. The study was implemented by using the CHILDHOOD EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING INVENTORY (CHEXI) FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS. The study participant were 150 children, divided among 10 educators in the second preparatory level at 4 different schools. The latter are part of (The Moroccan Foundation for the Promotion of preSchool education) in the Rabat region. It was concluded that the executive functions of preschool children still need further reinforcement and development by setting up an intervention program.

scholarly journals El Colpbol como un medio para incrementar la motivación en Educación Primaria (The Colpbol as a means to increase motivation in Primary Education)

Retos ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 348-353
Author(s):  
Andrea Hernández Martínez ◽  
Ismael Martínez Urbanos ◽  
Sebastián Carrión Olivares
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Educación Primaria ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Experimental Group

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal resaltar la vital importancia que tiene la motivación en el contexto educativo. Para ello, se presenta el desarrollo de una propuesta de intervención basada en el factor novedad como elemento mediador para incrementar la motivación de los alumnos en las clases de Educación Física. Para su puesta en práctica, se diseñó una Unidad Didáctica, la cual fue implementada con el grupo experimental, incluyendo como factor novedad un juego alternativo desconocido para el alumnado, el Colpbol. Por otra parte, con el grupo control se trabajaron aquellos contenidos que recogía la programación didáctica en el momento del curso en el que se llevó a cabo el estudio. Finalmente, mediante el instrumento BNSGS-Evento, se comparó el grado de motivación del alumnado en los factores que lo componen, mostrando mejoras en el grupo experimental con respecto al grupo control, siendo la novedad un factor determinante en la motivación que los alumnos presentan en las clases de Educación Física. Abstract. The main aim of this work is to highlight the vital importance of motivation in the educational context. To do this, the development of an intervention based on novelty as a mediating element to increase students’ motivation in Physical Education lessons is proposed. A work unit was designed to implement the program on an experimental group, including an alternative game, Colpbol, unknown by the students, as the novelty element. On the other hand, the control group was presented with the contents already included in the didactic program for the duration of the period corresponding to the intervention program. Students’ motivation degree was compared based on its factors through the BNSGS-Event instrument, showing improvements in the experimental group with respect to the control group, being novelty a determining factor in the motivation that students reported in the Physical Education lessons.

Solving Conceptual and Perceptual Analogies with Virtual Reality among Kindergarten Children of Immigrant Families

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
David Passig ◽  
Timor Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Solution Strategy ◽  
Analogical Thinking ◽  
Experimental Group

Background The ability to think analogically is central to the process of learning and understanding reality and there is a broad consensus among researchers that we can improve this ability. Immigrants who have emigrated from developing to developed countries tend to experience tremendous challenges in their early years as immigrants. Their children often find themselves in a situation where it is clear that their low achievements are the result of cultural mediation, which expresses itself not only in a language gap, but also in cultural and basic technological disorientation. Purpose The goal of this study is to help find efficient ways of nurturing analogical thinking in children who have emigrated from developing to developed countries and express difficulties in analogical thinking, and to point out the advantages inherent in the use of immersive 3D Virtual Reality technology for this goal. Population The participants in this study included 56 children, aged 4 to 7 years, whose parents immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia during the last ten years. The experimental group (n=28) practiced solving analogies that were presented in 3D VR, while the control group (n=28) practiced solving the same analogies with a pictorial version of the items that was presented with cards. Research Design The research instrument employed for evaluating Analogical thinking was the CCPAM measure, which includes 10 questions on Conceptual Analogies and 10 questions on Perceptual analogies. We designed the intervention program according to the CCPAM test. The CCPAM test was administered in three intervals: a. Prior to the beginning of the intervention. b. Immediately after the intervention, which included two meetings of 15 minutes each, during which the children were given exercises in solving analogies. c. Three weeks after the end of the intervention, in order to test the ability to preserve the solution strategy (the follow-up test). Conclusions The results indicate that both programs of intervention—VR and picture cards— significantly improved the ability to solve both kinds of analogies—perceptual and conceptual. However, the children in the experimental group, who practiced analogies within an immersive VR environment, improved their ability to a statistically significant degree more than did the children who practiced solutions with picture cards. The children in the experimental group preserved the solution strategy three weeks after the intervention significantly better than the control group, and the improvement in solving conceptual analogies was greater than the improvement in solving perceptual analogies.

Application of IE-Basic Program to Promote Cognitive and Affective Development in Preschoolers: A Chilean Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Salas ◽  
Cecilia Assael ◽  
David Huepe ◽  
Teresa Pérez ◽  
Fernando González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cognitive Change ◽  
Cognitive Intervention ◽  
Basic Program ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Affective Development ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Experimental Group

This study explores the effectiveness of the Instrumental Enrichment Basic program (IE-B) in enhancing cognitive and affective functions of young children. The IE-B is a cognitive intervention program based on Feuerstein’s theories of structural cognitive modifiability (SCM) and mediated learning experience (MLE). Thirty 3- to 4-year-old children were assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received the IE-B program for seven months (for a total of 48 hours) and was compared to the control group before and after intervention on tests of knowledge acquisition and vocabulary. Cognitive change was evaluated using a Chilean assessment battery that measured children’s language, cognition, and knowledge. The findings indicate that children in the experimental group improved their performance more than children in the control group. Results indicate that IE-B can be used with socially disadvantaged children as young as 3–4 and that it leads to improvement in their performance.

Constructive Comprehension Abilities Exhibited by Language-Disordered Children

1985 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ellis Weismer
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Cognitive Deficit ◽  
Second Graders ◽  
Conditional Analysis ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Pictorial Material ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Significant Difference

Constructive comprehension abilities were compared in a group of 12 language-disordered children (second graders) and two groups of children acquiring language normally (12 second graders matched to the language-disordered subjects on nonverbal cognitive skills and 12 kindergartners matched on language comprehension). Differences were examined in proficiency of the children in constructing spatial and causal inferences associated with short stories presented in a Verbal Task and Picture Task. The language-disordered group scored significantly lower on inference items than the cognitively matched control group of second graders on both tasks. A conditional analysis indicated that even when the language-disordered subjects appropriately answered the relevant premise items, they were significantly less likely than the second-grade controls to correctly respond to inference items on both tasks. There was no significant difference between the language-disordered and kindergarten children for either the overall or conditional analysis. The finding that language-disordered children evidenced difflculty in inference construction for both verbal and pictorial material was interpreted as being indicative of a cognitive deficit.

scholarly journals Reinforcing preschoolers’ phonemic awareness through the use of tablets

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Evaggelia Skaraki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Phonemic Awareness ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Initial Phoneme ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Phoneme Identification

This study aimed to implement an intervention program to examine whether tablets enhance kindergarten children’s phonemic awareness. Seventy-four (74) kindergarten children (40 boys and 34 girls) aged 4 to 6 years from 4 public kindergarten classrooms participated in the study, from which 38 children formed the experimental group while 36 children formed the control one. During the intervention program, children in the experimental group were trained through tablets in initial phoneme identification, initial phoneme deletion, and phoneme segmentation, while the control group trained in the same tasks without tablets. Results showed statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group. In conclusion, the present research found that digital media help educational practice, but it is also how teachers use digital tools to facilitate learning.

scholarly journals The Impact of Use Proposed Educational Software in Raising a Number of Cognitive Skills for Children with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities: أثر استخدام برمجية تعليمية مقترحة في رفع عدد من المهارات الإدراكية للأطفال من ذوي الإعاقة الذهنية المتوسطة

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Badawi Mostafa - Samani Abdul Muttalib Ahmed - Talaa
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Mental Disabilities ◽  
Calculation Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
And Training

Children with Mental disabilities face big challenges in the process of education and training through traditional educational systems and methods, making them useless and cumbersome for them and for those who train them also does not support the achievement of educational and training objectives that reflect the aims of education or training. The Objective of this study is to identify the challenges and difficulties faced by children with mental disabilities ranging from 6 to 11 years of age in the process of teaching them some cognitive skills and then developing educational software based on multimedia applications to teach them how to identify some basic skills such as measurement of sizes, colors and Basic calculation process. This study was based on the experimental method where the sample of the study consisted of two groups, one experimental and the other an Control Where the experimental group consisted of 7 children and their intelligence ranged between 55- 70 While the control group consisted of 7 children and their intelligence ranged from 55- 70. The results of the study showed how effective of the software in raising the level of cognitive ability in distinguishing the skills to be raised and the teaching of the sample where the percentage of correct responses ranged between 85- 90% for the experimental group in the measurement of the distance of all activities that have been measured the effectiveness of the software in its education.

scholarly journals Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) program: Accelerating students’ cognitive development

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Adi Prabowo ◽  
Wahyu Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Case Group ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cognitive Acceleration

As an intervention program developed to accelerate participant cognitive development, the effect of Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) implementation in certain conditions needs to be clarified. This paper describes the effect of CASE program on the cognitive development of elementary students in Indonesia. The study used a mixed method sequential explanatory design with the quantitative data collection in the first phase by Scientific Reasoning Skill Tasks administered to all of the participants both before and after intervention followed by collection of qualitative data in the second phase included interviews with the participants from both CASE and control groups. Participants of the study were 70 elementary school students (aged 10-12). After three months of intervention, students of CASE group showed higher mean gain (RGS mean= 4.4) compared to those of control group (mean RGS = 0.1). The qualitative data indicated that the CASE program also enhanced students’ motivation. Moreover, teachers who involved in the Teachers’ Professional Development (PD) Training Program developed a more specific strategy to enhance student’ cognitive ability. In other words, the CASE program was a worthwhile intervention for elementary level students in Indonesian school.

scholarly journals Cognitive-Based Interventions Break Gender Stereotypes in Kindergarten Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13052
Author(s):  
Yi Chung ◽  
Hsin-Hui Huang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Stereotyping ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Northern Taiwan

Despite the growing recognition of gender equality worldwide, plausible strategies that reduce young children’s gender stereotypes remain limited. Cognitive-based interventions have been widely used in school settings and have been suggested to play important roles in children’s gender stereotyping and in their processing of counter-stereotypic information. We aimed to determine whether exposure to counter-stereotypical information could break gender stereotypes in kindergarten children. Fifty-four children (61–79 months old) from two public kindergarten classes in northern Taiwan participated in this study. One of the two classes was randomly selected as the experimental group (n = 28), and the other was the control group (n = 26). The experimental group consisted of a gender equality curriculum including script relationship training for two months, while the control group continued their regular curriculum. The picture classification task (PCT) was measured before and after the intervention to assess gender stereotypes. Before interventions, 87.50% of the children chose a gender stereotypic relationship, while 12.50% chose script/other relationships in PCT. After the interventions, the gender stereotypic relationship dropped to 73.22% in the experimental group. Children in the control group were more likely to maintain their gender stereotypic relationship choices in PCTs. Our findings suggest that cognitive-based interventions, such as a gender equality curriculum, have the potential to break gender stereotypes in kindergarten children.

Reducing the Social Stigma Associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Controlled Trial of an Intervention Program in a Turkish Community Sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Ayça Aktaç Gürbüz ◽  
Orçun YORULMAZ ◽  
Gülşah DURNA
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

Scientific research into the reduction of stigmatization, particularly related to specific problems such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), is scarce. In the present study, we examine the impact of a video-based antistigma intervention program for OCD in a pretest-posttest control group research. After being randomly assigned to either an intervention (n= 101) or control group (n= 96), the participants reported their attitudes on a hypothetical case vignette before and after OCD vs. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) videos, and again six months later as a follow up assessment. The mixed design analyses for the group comparisons indicated that although there was no significant difference in the measures of the control group, the participants watching the anti-stigma OCD video, in which the focus was psychoeducation and interaction strategies, reported significantly lower scores on social distances and negative beliefs for the case vignettes they read, and this difference was maintained six months later. Then, the present results indicate the effectiveness of our anti-stigma intervention program for OCD. Interventions to reduce stigmatization can also be viewed as effective tools for changing the attitudes of people toward OCD, although further research and applications are needed related to specific disorders if a longlasting impact is to be achieved.

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