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Educational effects of the Tools of the Mind curriculum: A randomized trial
W. Steven Barnett,Kwanghee Jung,Donald J. Yarosz,Jessica A. Thomas,Amy Hornbeck,Robert Stechuk,Susan Burns +6 more
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The Tools of the Mind (Tools) curriculum as discussed by the authors focuses on the development of self-regulation at the same time as teaching literacy and mathematics skills in a way that is socially mediated by peers and teachers and with a focus on play.About:
This article is published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.The article was published on 2008-07-01. It has received 524 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergent curriculum & Curriculum.read more
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Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control
TL;DR: Cognitive control skills important for success in school and life are amenable to improvement in at-risk preschoolers without costly interventions.
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Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify caracteristicas relacionadas with the aprendizaje of these habilidades, that include desarrollo profesional docente, curriculo, evaluacion, programas extraescolares and extraescolate, and centros de aprendíe informal como exhibiciones and museos.
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Hard evidence on soft skills
James J. Heckman,Tim Kautz +1 more
TL;DR: The larger message of this paper is that soft skills predict success in life, that they causally produce that success, and that programs that enhance soft skills have an important place in an effective portfolio of public policies.
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Working memory and mathematics: A review of developmental, individual difference, and cognitive approaches.
TL;DR: The authors reviewed four approaches that address the relation between working memory and math: dual task studies establishing the role of working memory during on-line math performance; individual difference studies examining working memory in children with math difficulties; studies of working attention as a predictor of mathematical outcomes; and longitudinal studies of the relationship between working attention and math.
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School Readiness and Self-Regulation: A Developmental Psychobiological Approach
Clancy Blair,C. Cybele Raver +1 more
TL;DR: The idea that research on self-regulation powerfully highlights ways in which gaps in school readiness and later achievement are linked to poverty and social and economic inequality is illustrated and points the way to effective approaches to counteract these conditions.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.
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Preventing reading difficulties in young children
TL;DR: This chapter discusses strategies for helping children with Reading Difficulties in Grades 1 to 3, as well as recommendations for practice and research.
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What's wrong with Bonferroni adjustments
TL;DR: This paper advances the view, widely held by epidemiologists, that Bonferroni adjustments are, at best, unnecessary and, at worst, deleterious to sound statistical inference.
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Higher cortical functions in man
TL;DR: Among the authors' patients was a bookkeeper with a severe form of sensory aphasia who could still draw up the annual balance sheet in spite of severe disturbances of speech and although he was unable to remember the names of his subordinates and used to refer to them incorrectly.
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