Putting the pieces together: Cognitive correlates of self-derivation of new knowledge in elementary school classrooms.

ABSTRACT: A central goal of development and formal education is to build a knowledge base. Accumulating knowledge relies, in part, on self-derivation of new semantic knowledge via integration of separate yet related learning episodes. Previous tests of self-derivation evidence both age-related and significant individual variability in self-derivation performance in the laboratory and the classroom due in part to individual differences in verbal comprehension (children and adults) and working memory (adults only). In the only extant investigation of cognitive correlates of children's successful self-derivation in the classroom, 3rd graders' verbal comprehension predicted self-derivation, whereas working memory did not. In the current research, we expanded the battery of cognitive correlates investiga

SUBMITTER: Dugan JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187618 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature