By Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers, M.A., Ph.D., and Iain Kusel, M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Challenges of Modeling Continuity and Change in Children’s Seriation and Ordinal Understanding | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. David W. Braithwaite. The monograph by McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019) describes a series of experiments providing evidence for discontinuity between ages 5 and 7 in children’s performance on seriation and ordinal understanding…
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Information Processing: Ontological Compatibilities and Incompatibilities | Commentary
Commentary on McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019). The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12411 About the AuthorDavid C. Witherington Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico Dr. Witherington’s empirical work focuses on perception-action, cognitive, and emotional development in infancy and early childhood. His conceptual work focuses on the […]
Size Sequencing: Increasingly Important for Theory, Research, and Practice | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Douglas H. Clements. Despite a long-standing interest in young children’s development of basic cognitive competencies and their learning of mathematics, my initial reactions to the title of The Development of Size Sequencing…
Challenges in Understanding the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skills: Models, Structures, and Educational Tools
Authors’ Response to Commentaries on the 84.4 issue of Monographs. We thank the authors who wrote commentaries on our SRCD Monograph. These commentaries reveal colleagues’ deep reflection on the monograph by…
Overview: Seriation – A Developmental Issue | Video
In this overview video, Dr. Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers (University of Edinburgh) explains the behaviors of 5-year-olds as they struggle with (and eventually solve) the size-seriation task originally…
Methodological Lesson: Modeling the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skills | Video
With the help of whiteboard animations, Dr. Iain Kusel (University of Edinburgh) presents an easy-to-digest introduction for researchers and students alike on how a specific computational modeling approach…
The Emergence of Size Seriation Ability: A Developmental Issue | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint slideshow provides an overview of the research featured in the November 2019 Monograph. It reviews goals, methods, and key findings of research on how 5- and 7-year…
Computational Models in Developmental Psychology | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint slideshow summarizes the two existing models of seriation and computational methods used in the November 2019 Monograph, “The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis”…
Modeling the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skill | PowerPoint
This PowerPoint provides an overview of the computational models used in the Monograph titled, “The Development of Size Sequencing Skills: An Empirical and Computational Analysis”. It is designed as a…