Earlier studies suggested mature active-learning patterns emerge only in late childhood, but the article attributes this to paradigm limitations¶
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q1 i? Prior research found children generate the most effective questions from scratch only around age 7 and show adult-like inquiry patterns closer to age 10, but the author argues these paradigms were too complicated, abstract, or assumption-laden to capture early competence. → Azzurra Ruggeri 2022
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Azzurra Ruggeri 2022¶
Azzurra Ruggeri. (2022). An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221112114
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The review reports, citing Ruggeri and Feufel (2015) and the decision-making literature, that children's predecisional information search was 'exhaustive... unfocused, and unsystematic until age 10 or even later.' The author interprets these as paradigm artifacts, not true competence limits.
"some research has indicated that children do not begin to systematically generate from scratch (as opposed to identify) the most effective questions until age 7, and that they do not demonstrate robust adult-like inquiry patterns until closer to age 10"
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Earlier studies suggested mature active-learning patterns emerge only in late childhood, but the article attributes this to paradigm limitations |
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Earlier studies suggested mature active-learning patterns emerge only in late childhood, but the article attributes this to paradigm limitations |
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