Adults can promote young children's STEM skill learning during guided play but may need support to incorporate STEM talk and reduce directive management¶
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q1 i? Adults can promote young children's STEM skill learning during guided play, but may need support to incorporate STEM talk and reduce directive management. → Karen L. Bierman 2025
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Karen L. Bierman 2025¶
Karen L. Bierman, Lynn S. Liben, Meg Small, Jennifer Connell, Brenda Heinrichs, Jessica Menold, Scarlett Rae Miller, Morgan Mannweiler. (2025). Guided activity kits impact parents’ scaffolding of child STEM play. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102082
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Background statement motivating the study, presented without supporting data or argument in the provided text. The article states that "Adults can promote the STEM skill learning of young children during guided play but may need support to incorporate STEM talk (STEM vocabulary and scientific inquiry) and reduce directive management."
"Adults can promote the STEM skill learning of young children during guided play but may need support to incorporate STEM talk (STEM vocabulary and scientific inquiry) and reduce directive management."
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Related Claims¶
- Guided activity kits showed no main effect on parents' STEM talk or directive management during parent-child building play — related
- Guided play outperforms direct instruction or free play on a few early-childhood outcomes, with no reliable difference on most others, in one meta-analysis — a broader claim this one bears on
- Minimal guidance is less effective for novices than explicit instruction — related
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Adults can promote young children's STEM skill learning during guided play but may need support to incorporate STEM talk and reduce directive management |
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Adults can promote young children's STEM skill learning during guided play but may need support to incorporate STEM talk and reduce directive management |
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