Children's Minds

By Margaret C. Donaldson. 1978

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Learning How to Ask: Querying LMs with Mixtures of Soft Prompts (2021, background): “Finding out what young children know is difficult because they can be very sensitive to the form of the question (Donaldson, 1978).”
Sociocultural critique of Piaget and Vygotsky (2000, background): “A well-documented example of such critique of Piaget is Donaldson's research (Donaldson, 1978) with `preoperationala children.”
Tracking the Development of Learning Dispositions (2002, background): “Even small, apparently incidental details of the way a task is described or instantiated can make a huge difference to performance (see for example Donaldson, 1978; Ceci & Bronfenbrenner, 1985).”
Talking and thinking together at Key Stage 1 (2005, background): “Moreover, such talk is essentially situated and context-sensitive, not ‘context-free’ or ‘de-contextualised’ as some (e.g. Donaldson, 1978; Wells, 1986) have suggested.”
Assistance of students with mathematical learning difficulties: how can research support practice? (2016, background): “In this regard Donaldson (1978) distinguished between the mastery of all the individual patterns or relationships of a system on the one hand, and understanding the nature of a system on the other hand.”
A Way of Visualising Children's and Young People's Thoughts about the Environment: A study of drawings (2000, result): “This discrepancy is the same as that referred to in the criticism that has been directed at Piaget’s theory on the stages of development (see for example Donaldson, 1978; Wylie et al., 1998).”
The Precursors of Reading Ability in Young Readers: Evidence From a Four-Year Longitudinal Study (2012, background): “Others have argued for a causal link between metalinguistic awareness and comprehension skill in the opposite direction (e.g., Donaldson, 1978; Vygotsky, 1962).”
The Evolution of Mathematical Reasoning: Everyday versus Idealized Understandings (2002, background): “…children who fail in Piagetian conservation, class inclusion, or perspective-taking tasks demonstrate more advanced logical reasoning when interviewers ask the questions in slightly altered ways (see, among others, Donaldson, 1978; Light, Buckingham, & Robbins, 1979; McGarrigle & Donaldson, 1974).”
Meaningful learning: The essential factor for conceptual change in limited or inappropriate propositional hierarchies leading to empowerment of learners (2002, result): “Our research and the research of others indicate that while the latter factors are in many cases significant factors influencing achievement, they are probably not the most important factors (Carey, 1985; Donaldson, 1978; Metz, 1997).”
The Growth of Flexible Problem Solving: Preschool Children Use Changing Verbal Cues to Infer Multiple Word Meanings (2000, background): “First, children pragmatically learn how to interpret certain speech acts (Donaldson, 1978; Siegal, 1991).”