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Direct linkSasisekaran, Jayanthi; Lei, Xiaofan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: We investigated developmental differences in a dual task involving rhyming and tone judgment/decisions and the effects of varying cognitive demands on task performance. Method: Participants were 7- to 11-year-olds, 12- to 15-year-olds, and adults between 18 and 40 years (n = 19 per group). The rhyming task consisted of three stimuli…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Rhyme, Cognitive Processes
Papachristou, Efstathios; Flouri, Eirini; Joshi, Heather; Midouhas, Emily; Lewis, Glyn – Child Development, 2022
Ability-grouping has been studied extensively in relation to children's academic, but not emotional and behavioral outcomes. The sample comprised 7259 U.K. children (50% male) with data on between-class and within-class ability-grouping at age 7. Peer, emotional, hyperactivity, and conduct problems were measured at ages 7, 11, and 14 years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ability Grouping, Behavior Problems, Children
Okazaki, Fabio H. A.; Keller, Birgit; Fontana, Fabio E.; Gallagher, Jere D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
In sports, the relative age effect (RAE) refers to performance disadvantages of children born late in the competition year compared to those with birthdays soon after the cutoff date. This effect is derived from age grouping, a strategy commonly used in youth sport programs. The purpose of age grouping is to decrease possible cognitive, physical,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Females, Team Sports, Athletes
Roberts, Simon J.; Fairclough, Stuart J. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2012
The common practice of annually age grouping children in education, likely done under the assumption of similarly aged children sharing similar abilities and learner characteristics, may actually undermine equity and fairness in student assessments. This strategy has received criticism for (dis) advantaging those older children born closer to the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Download full textChoury, Elmer C. – 1969
The project described here is designed to measure the effectiveness of an intensive attempt at totally individualizing instruction to upgrade instructional programs in two elementary schools with the highest concentration of disadvantaged students in the county. The goal of the project is to achieve a system which will allow each student to…
Descriptors: Children, Classes (Groups of Students), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Improvement
McCown, Darlene; Sharma, Chandra – 1990
The purpose of this study was to describe the social competencies and behavioral problems of a national sample of pastors' children and to compare them to age and sex standardized norms. Data on 98 children between 4 and 16 years of age were obtained by using the Child Behavior Checklist with a random sample of 62 families. Pastors' children have…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Clergy, Stress Variables
Chen, Kaili; Bullock, Lyndal M. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2004
The purposes of the study reported here were to investigate the social competence of students aged from six to 12, diagnosed with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD) in a public self-contained school setting, and to increase the students' social competence by using a literature-based method that employs multi-age grouping, impersonation, and…
Descriptors: Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Interpersonal Competence
Minnesota State Dept. of Health, Minneapolis. Services for Children with Handicaps. – 1991
This booklet contains guidelines to help families coordinate health care of a child with asthma. The first section provides general information covering what asthma is, the signs and symptoms of asthma, effects of asthma, and the use and effects of various medications. A section on health care focuses on the use of the Family Centered Health Care…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asthma, Child Development, Children
Minnesota State Dept. of Health, Minneapolis. Services for Children with Handicaps. – 1990
This booklet contains guidelines to help families coordinate health care of a child with diabetes. The first section provides general information covering what diabetes mellitus-Type I is, the symptoms of diabetes, causes of Type I diabetes, and effects of diabetes. A section on health care focuses on the membership and functions of the Family…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Chronic Illness, Developmental Stages
Wood, Chip – 1997
Expanded from its previous edition to include ages 13 and 14, this book provides teachers and parents with a quick reference on important childhood developmental issues, explaining what children should be learning and doing in the classroom at each developmental stage. The book begins by discussing how developmental issues can affect…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development
Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC. – 1997
Play is a natural activity for children that provides opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally, and socially. These two booklets offer toy selection advice from the government agency charged with protecting the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products. The first booklet outlines toy choices for: (1)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Child Behavior, Child Safety
Norris, Eleanor L., Ed.; Bowes, John E., Ed. – 1970
Literature experts, educators, and a national cross-section of interested laymen were gathered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress to define major objectives in literature instruction, to suggest tasks to sample these objectives and exhibit the achievements, interests, and attitudes of those exposed to literature, and to describe…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Educational Objectives
Texas Univ., Austin. School of Social Work. – 1995
This Kids Count report presents a brief demographic analysis of preventable child deaths in Texas. The analysis integrates quantitative and qualitative information on accidents, homicides, and suicides, with data on deaths from disease and other causes to compare different age groupings, ethnic groups, and time periods. Texas Department of Health…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1970
This book of charts of comparative statistics was compiled to help the 1970 White House Conference on Children evaluate past efforts to improve the well-being of America's children. First, it presents data about aspects of the world into which American children are born, such as population, urbanization, income levels, incidence of disease,…
Descriptors: Charts, Children, Demography, Education
Toplak, Maggie E.; Sorge, Geoff B.; Flora, David B.; Chen, Wai; Banaschewski, Tobias; Buitelaar, Jan; Ebstein, Richard; Eisenberg, Jacques; Franke, Barbara; Gill, Michael; Miranda, Ana; Oades, Robert D.; Roeyers, Herbert; Rothenberger, Aribert; Sergeant, Joseph; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Thompson, Margaret; Tannock, Rosemary; Asherson, Philip; Faraone, Stephen V. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: To examine the factor structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a clinical sample of 1,373 children and adolescents with ADHD and their 1,772 unselected siblings recruited from different countries across a large age range. Hierarchical and correlated factor analytic models were compared separately in the ADHD and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Siblings, Factor Structure, Adolescents
