Developmental changes in children’s understandings of intelligence and thinking skills

Autor:	Lynsey A. Burke, Joanne Williams
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Social Psychology Age differences Skill development Thinking skills Pediatrics Child development Developmental psychology Trend analysis Content analysis Developmental and Educational Psychology Mathematics education Cognitive development Statistical analysis Psychology
Zdroj:	Early Child Development and Care. 179:949-968
ISSN:	1476-8275 0300-4430
DOI:	10.1080/03004430701635491
Popis:	Research on children’s concepts of intelligence has not considered how children conceptualise specific thinking skills. This study extends previous research on the development of children’s concepts of intelligence and produces novel data on children’s understandings of effective thinking and thinking skills. Seventy‐five children were sampled from four primary schools in central Scotland, with 25 children from each of the following ages: five years (M = 5, 5; 10 boys, 15 girls); seven years (M = 7, 4; 13 boys, 12 girls) and 11 years (M = 11, 5; 10 boys, 15 girls). During semi‐structured individual interviews, children were asked questions regarding their understandings of intelligence and thinking, the relation between effort and ability, the stability of intelligence and their knowledge of specific thinking skills. Data were coded using content analysis and analysed using non‐parametric statistics to reveal age trends. Results showed developmental trends in children’s understandings of intelligence and ...
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