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| Robert SieglerSummaryAffiliation: Carnegie Mellon University Country: USA Publications
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"Hey, would you like a nice cold cup of lemonade on this hot day?": children's understanding of economic causationR S Siegler
Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Dev Psychol 34:146-60. 1998....- Development of rules and strategies: balancing the old and the newRobert S Siegler
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 81:446-57. 2002.... - Robert S. Siegler: Award for Distinguished Scientific ContributionsRobert S Siegler
Am Psychol 60:767-9. 2005 
Fractions: the new frontier for theories of numerical developmentRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 17:13-9. 2013..Accurate representation of fraction magnitudes emerges as crucial both to conceptual understanding of fractions and to fraction arithmetic...- Early predictors of high school mathematics achievementRobert S Siegler
Carnegie Mellon University Psychology, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 23:691-7. 2012..Implications of these findings for understanding and improving mathematics learning are discussed... - Chinese children excel on novel mathematics problems even before elementary schoolRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 19:759-63. 2008..These results indicate that performance differences between Chinese and U.S. children on both practiced and unpracticed mathematical tasks are substantial even before the children begin elementary school... - Playing linear numerical board games promotes low-income children's numerical developmentRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Sci 11:655-61. 2008..Thus, playing numerical board games offers an inexpensive means for reducing the gap in numerical knowledge that separates less and more affluent children when they begin school... - Differentiation and integration: guiding principles for analyzing cognitive changeRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Sci 11:433-48. 2008..Requests for explanations appeared to operate through helping children notice potential explanatory variables, formulate more advanced rules, and generalize the rules to novel problems... - Cognitive variabilityRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Sci 10:104-9. 2007..Recognizing such variability can help us both describe development more accurately and better explain how cognitive change occurs... - What leads children to adopt new strategies? A microgenetic/cross-sectional study of class inclusionRobert S Siegler
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 77:997-1015. 2006..Reasons for the superior effectiveness of the logical explanations were discussed... - Children's learningRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am Psychol 60:769-78. 2005..Learning has many sources; one that is particularly promising for educational purposes is self-explanations. Overall, contemporary analyses show that learning and development have a great deal in common... - Conscious and unconscious strategy discoveries: a microgenetic analysisR S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 127:377-97. 1998..Implications for understanding the relation between unconscious and conscious discoveries and for the role of competing activations in strategy discovery are discussed... - Development of numerical estimation in young childrenRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 75:428-44. 2004.... - The development of numerical estimation: evidence for multiple representations of numerical quantityRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 14:237-43. 2003.... - The rebirth of children's learningR S Siegler
Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 71:26-35. 2000..Increasing our focus on children's learning promises to yield practical benefits as well as a more exciting field of cognitive development... - A microgenetic/cross-sectional study of matrix completion: comparing short-term and long-term changeRobert S Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 73:793-809. 2002.... - A computational model of conscious and unconscious strategy discoveryRobert Siegler
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Adv Child Dev Behav 33:1-42. 2005 - Developmental and individual differences in pure numerical estimationJulie L Booth
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Psychol 42:189-201. 2006..Implications for understanding of mathematics learning in general are discussed... - Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children's numerical knowledge through playing number board gamesGeetha B Ramani
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Child Dev 79:375-94. 2008..Thus, playing number board games with children from low-income backgrounds may increase their numerical knowledge at the outset of school... - Is 27 a big number? Correlational and causal connections among numerical categorization, number line estimation, and numerical magnitude comparisonElida V Laski
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 78:1723-43. 2007..Reasons were proposed for the parallel developmental changes across tasks, the consistent individual differences, and the relation between improved categorization of numbers and increasingly linear representations... - A microgenetic study of insightful problem solvingKoen Luwel
Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology, University of Leuven, Vesaliusstraat 2, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Exp Child Psychol 99:210-32. 2008..The results indicate that experience outside the experimental situation, as well as experience inside the experimental situation, influences use of new strategies... - Representational change and children's numerical estimationJohn E Opfer
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Cogn Psychol 55:169-95. 2007..The findings indicated that cognitive change can occur at the level of an entire representation, rather than always involving a sequence of local repairs... - Revisiting preschoolers' living things concept: a microgenetic analysis of conceptual change in basic biologyJohn E Opfer
Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, 214 Townshesnd Hall, Columbus, OH 43206, USA
Cogn Psychol 49:301-32. 2004..Results also indicated that not all biological properties are extended from familiar animals to plants; some biological properties are first attributed to plants and then extended to animals...
Research Grants
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGY CHOICE PROCEDURESRobert Siegler; Fiscal Year: 1993....
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGY CHOICE PROCEDURESRobert Siegler; Fiscal Year: 1999....
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGY CHOICE PROCEDURESRobert Siegler; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..