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The effects of age, study time, and importance of text units on strategy use and memory for texts
(1988)
This study investigated study behavior and recall of a narrative text as a function of the reader's age, study time, and importance level of text units. Fifth graders, seventh graders, young- and older adults were asked to read a fairy tale, and do anything they liked to prepare for verbatim recall. Half of the subjects in each age group were assigned to an immediate recall condition; half were given additional study time. Examination of recall data showed that all subjects showed higher recall of important units in the text than unimportant units. This effect was independent of age and study time condition. Study behaviors varied significantly across age groups and study conditions: while adults underlined or took notes with equal frequency, children preferred note-taking as a study strategy. With additional study time, fifth graders, seventh graders, and older adults increased their strategic behavior; young adults did not.
Neuere Ansätze der Hochbegabtenforschung haben demonstriert, daß herausragende intellektuelle Fähigkeiten alleine noch keine kognitiven Höchstleistungen in späteren Lebensabschnitten garantieren. Insbesondere retrospektive Analysen der Daten genialer bzw. kognitiv hochproduktiver Persönlichkeiten lassen darauf schließen, daß neben Intelligenzmerkmalen auch Wissensaspekte und nichtkognitive Persönlichkeitsmerkmale entscheidend dafür verantwortlich sind, daß Höchstleistungen erzielt werden können. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein Überblick über Studien gegeben, die den Einfluß bereichsspezifiscben Wissens auf kognitive Höchstleistungen darstellt, daß jedoch ab einem bestimmten Grenzwert intellektueller Fähigkeit allein das Ausmaß bereichsspezifischen Wissens in Kombination mit extremen Ausprägungen in nichtkognitiven Merkmalen wie Konzentrationsfähigkeit, Ausdauer und Erfolgsmotivation darüber entscheidet, ob intellektuelle Höchstleistungen erbracht werden können.
Dargestellt werden die theoretischen Ziele, das methodische Vorgehen und die ersten Ergebnisse einer Longitudinalstudie zur Genese individueller Kompetenzen (LOGIK) im Vorschulalter. Dabei geht es vor allem um generelle Merkmale und differentielle Verläufe bei der Entwicklung kognitiver, sozialer und motivationaler Kompetenzen.
In neueren Untersuchungen zur Mathematikerziehung im Elementarbereich wird verstärkt auf die Bedeutung kognitiver Prozesse (Strategien) für die erfolgreiche Bewältigung von Problemlöseaufgaben hingewiesen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird insbesondere auf das Wissen um kognitive Prozesse und deren Steuerung, also auf Metakognitionen eingegangen. Es wird zunächst eine Einführung in traditionelle Kategorien von Metakognition gegeben und dann auf eine Weiterentwicklung eingegangen, die als "Modell des kompetenten Strategie-Anwenders" bekanntgeworden ist. Dieses Modell wird dann als Grundlage für Empfehlungen benutzt, die darauf abzielen, den Mathematikunterricht effizienter zu gestalten.
Experimental research on memory development has typically focused on the description of universal development trends across the life span and the identification of major sources of development within this domain. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the preconditions and effects of interindividual variability within age groups across different memory tasks. Similarly, our knowledge about the stability of interindividual differences across the life span as well as the sources and the amount of intraindividual variability across memory tasks is scarce. In the present chapter, we concentrate on these neglected issues. First, theoretical assumptions concerning the interindividual and intraindividual variability of memory development are discussed. Next, empirical evidence is presented that seems suited to document the importance of these neglected issues. While we try to give a representative account of the literature, the emphasis is on more recent studies of memory development in children and elderly adults conducted in our laboratory. The results demonstrate that age-related changes and individual differences in the knowledge base are particularly important for describing and explaining individual differences in memory develoment. In comparison, the rote of stable individual differences in basic memory capacities in explaining variations in memory development is less clear given tbe conflicting empirical evidence. In the final section of the chapter consequences for future research are discussed.
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.