ERIC Number: EJ1219005
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1524-8372
EISSN: N/A
Relating Children's Early Elementary Classroom Experiences to Later Skilled Remembering and Study Skills
Coffman, Jennifer L.; Grammer, Jennie K.; Hudson, Kesha N.; Thomas, Taylor E.; Villwock, Diane; Ornstein, Peter A.
Journal of Cognition and Development, v20 n2 p203-221 2019
As children transition from the early to later grades of elementary school, they become increasingly skilled at employing a variety of techniques -- such as rehearsal and organizational strategies -- for remembering information. Developmental changes in strategy use have been well documented, but little is known about the extent to which these "simple" techniques give way to more complex strategies, such as the study skills that are important in academically--based tasks in later elementary school. Moreover, although school experiences have been shown to be important in the development of young children's deliberate memory skills, less is known about how the school context sets the stage for the use of more sophisticated strategies and study skills. In this article, we make use of data from a longitudinal study of children's memory skills to describe associations among measures of children's basic memory strategy use in the first and second grades and their implementation of more complex strategies and study skills in the fourth grade. We also highlight linkages between first-grade teachers' use of "Cognitive Processing Language" (CPL) during instruction and children's performance in the first, second, and fourth grades. This project reflects an ongoing collaboration among researchers, teachers, and school administrators, and we end with a discussion of the benefits -- for both basic understanding and educational practice -- that can result from such an endeavor.
Descriptors: Study Skills, Memory, Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Learning Strategies, Educational Benefits, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis, Taxonomy, Short Term Memory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Grade 2
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); Institute of Education Sciences (ED); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: BCS0217206; BCS0519153; R305A120402; 5T32HD007376