Children's statements about universal properties of cognition emerged only in weight and volume measurement activities, not in length or area activities¶
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q2 i? Across the 16 activities, children made statements judging cognitive difficulty or ease only in weight and volume activities; no such statements occurred in length or area activities. → Ebru Aydın 2022
Evidence¶
Ebru Aydın 2022¶
Ebru Aydın, Çağlayan Dinçer. (2022). “I did it wrong, but i know it”: Young children’s metacognitive knowledge expressions during peer interactions in math activities. Thinking Skills and Creativity 45 (2022) 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101104
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Qualitative finding from the full set of 16 activities: universal-property statements (e.g., judging whether something is cognitively hard or easy to understand) appeared exclusively in weight and volume tasks. Examples include Michael's "it is soft and light" in the Bags activity.
"According to the findings from the 16 activities, the children did not make any statements about general cognitive structures in activities based on length and area measurement skills; they only made such statements in activities based on weight and volume measurement skills."
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Related Claims¶
- Five-year-old children reveal metacognitive knowledge of self, others, universal properties of cognition, and task-specific strategies during peer interactions in mathematical measurement activities — a broader claim this one bears on
- Individual differences in metacognitive knowledge expressions relate to children's mathematical competence and verbalization style — related
- Peer interactions supported both children's metacognitive tasks and strategies, with children organizing performance using others' directions and evaluating others' performance — related
- Children express metacognitive knowledge of self by identifying their own mistakes and weaknesses in academic working skills during measurement activities — related
- Children develop and demonstrate task-specific strategies through peer interaction, including instructing others and explaining why strategies work — related
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Children's statements about universal properties of cognition emerged only in weight and volume measurement activities, not in length or area activities |
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Children's statements about universal properties of cognition emerged only in weight and volume measurement activities, not in length or area activities |
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