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Cognitive Development
From the Topic Lead
Prof Tan Oon Seng
National Institute of Education [email protected]Professor Tan Oon Seng is Dean of Special Projects and Centre Director, Singapore Centre for Character and Citizenship Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prof Tan has contribute ...
Appointments:
Dean, Special Projects and Centre Director, Singapore Centre for Character & Citizenship Education
Professor, National Institute of Education - Psychology and Child & Human Development
Keywords: Education | Psychology | Science of Learning
In the Singapore Context ...
Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning: A Focus on Early Childhood
Self-Regulated learning
Overview of Executive Functions in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Asst Prof Chye Yen Leng Stefanie
Assistant Dean, Teacher Leadership & Professional Inquiry, Office of Teacher Education, NIE, NTU
Published: 1 Jun 2023
By Dr Ng Ee Lynn
Senior Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Child Development, NIE, NTU
Published: 1 Jun 2023
By Dr Aishah Abdul Rahaman
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Science of Learning in Education, NIE, NTU
Published: 1 Jun 2023
Self-regulation is a multi-faceted construct that describes the ability to control thoughts, feelings, and actions to achieve goal-directed behaviours. It consists of different constructs including executive functions, behavioral self-regulation, and emotion regulation...
The concept of self-regulated learning (SRL) emphasises the role of the self in establishing learning goals and strategies, and how the learner’s perception of the self and task affects the quality of learning that transpires (Paris & Winograd, 1999). Paris and Paris (2001) describe SRL as “autonomy and control by the individual who monitors, directs, and regulates actions towards goals of information acquisition ...
Executive functions (EF) refer to several mental processes that allow us to think and act in a goal-directed manner. They are particularly needed when responding in a habitual or instinctual pattern would not aid ...