TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carr, Martha
A1  - Kurtz, Beth E.
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Turner, Lisa A.
A1  - Borkowski, John G.
T1  - Strategy acquisition and transfer among American and German children: Environmental influences on metacognitive development
N2  - This study explored the differential effects of strategy training on German and American elementaryschool children and assessed the role of parents in the development of their children's strategic behavior and metacognition. 184 German and 161 American children were pretested on memory and metamemory tasks. Children were then assigned to either an organizational strategy training condition or a control condition. All children were tested on the maintenance and far-transfer of the strategy and task-related metamemory 1 week following training. Parents completed questionnaires about strategy instruction in the home. Strategy maintenance and metacognition were reassessed 6 months following training. German children were more strategic than American children. Instructed children performed better than control children. German parents reported more instruction of strategies in the home. These data suggest that formal education is responsible for aspects of cognitive development that have sometimes been viewed as a function of age.
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62082
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kurtz, Beth
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Borkowski, John G.
A1  - Carr, Martha
A1  - Turner, Lisa A.
T1  - Sources of memory and metamemory development: Societal, parental, and educational influences
N2  - This project had two goals: (1) to examine the impact of strategy training on memory performance in German and American children, and (2) to search for environmental correlates of individual differences in cognitive processes. Following pretesting, 437 children were divided into training and control groups, with the former receiving training in clustering strategies. Trained children showed sizable strategy maintenance and transfer effects two weeks and six months later. Parents and teachers completed questionnaires about the teaching of strategies and their attributional beliefs about children's academic successes and failures. The differences in strategie behavior and attributions of German and American children were due, in part, to differences in strategy-enriched environments.
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1988
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-50524
ER  -