Summary: Forty-eight fourth-graders performed a mathematics test (arithmetic performance), simple (single-digit) addition and subtraction tasks (basic fact retrieval), memory span forward (indicating the capacity of the phonological loop; Baddeley, 1986) ...
First Language Reading Literacy of Children Educated in an Immersion ProgramSummary: Fifty-two fourth-graders performed German reading literacy tests and an intelligence test. Twenty of the tested children were educated in an immersion English-German ...
Individually preferences for reference standard orientation and self-concept of elementary school children in mathematicsAbstract. Three reference standards (RS) can be used when evaluating academic achievement: individual reference standard (IRS), ...
The developmental relation of academic self-concept and achievement in elementary school children in the light of alternative modelsAbstract. The association between academic self-concept and achievement is assumed ...
Previous research showed that failure primes in academic learning contexts can impair the performance of both older school children and college students. The present research tested the effect of failure priming on cognitive and motor performance in ...
Dependency of reading comprehension development on listening and basic reading skills: An examination of the Simple View of ReadingAbstract. Recent models of reading acquisition assume that the reader uses the same processes to understand a written text ...
Assessment of Concentration in Elementary School Children: An Evaluation of Three Tests (TPK, d2-R, ZVT)Abstract. Concentration correlates with and predicts successful learning behavior. The psychometric properties of concentration tests have been ...
Assessment of Mental Rotation Performance at Primary School Age. A Computer-Based Test Procedure for First to Third Grades (cMR)Abstract: Mental rotation performance as a part of visuospatial skills is closely related to mathematical ...
Do school uniforms change elementary school students’ approaches to learning and classroom climate? Results of a longitudinal studyAbstract. In a longitudinal study with 251 elementary school children, we investigated how school uniforms relate to ...
Ontogenetic development of direction pointing in a familiar environment during childhoodAbstract. In a combined longitudinal vs. cross-sectional design study pointing performance in preschool and elementary school children in familiar school environments ...
Zusammenfassung. Eine deutschsprachige Übersetzung, Adaptation und Erweiterung des Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ; Frick, 1991) für Eltern von Kindern im Grundschulalter erfasst mit 40 Items die Dimensionen Positives Elternverhalten, Involviertheit,...
Cognitive Competencies and Coping in Preschool and Primary School: Developmental Precursors, Interactions, and RelationsAbstract. To date, research on cognitive development and on coping has rarely been related. Many authors assume that cognitive ...