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    "pk": 25747,
    "title": "Children Learn Better When They Select Their Own Data",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Human learners ask questions, manipulate objects, and\nperform interventions on their environment. These behaviors\nare true of adults, but even more so for young children.\nRecent studies have demonstrated that adults learn better\nunder conditions of selection learning, where they can make\ndecisions about the information they wish to acquire, as\ncompared to reception learning, where they merely observe\ndata that happens to be available to them. Yet to date, it\nremains unclear whether this advantage is available to\nchildren, and if so, does it arise because children can gather\ndata in a non-random way? In the current study, we show that\n7-year-old children show superior learning under conditions\nof selection in a category-learning task, and that their\ninformation gathering is systematically driven by uncertainty",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "self-directed learning; active learning; education"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2km363bs",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zi",
            "middle_name": "L",
            "last_name": "Sim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michelle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tanner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nina",
            "middle_name": "Y",
            "last_name": "Alpert",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Fei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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