{"pk":27962,"title":"Child-guided math practice: The role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy for children experiencing homelessness","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A child’s perceived ability, over and above actual ability,matters for various behavioral outcomes, academic or personal.In the current paper, we looked at one type of self-efficacy:children’s perceived ability to regulate their own negativeemotions. Our question was whether regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) affects math learning for children who arefaced with homelessness. The specific math enrichmentcentered on child-guided math practice: Children were given acommercially available app and encouraged to pick out theirown practice problems. Our thought was that RESE mightaffect children’s learning when they are given a chance todetermine their own math-practice path. The goal of the currentstudy was to establish this link empirically. The sampleincluded 5- to 12-year-olds who attended a summer programorganized for homeless children. Results confirmed ourhypothesis. Children who scored lowest on the RESE scales (N= 40) benefited less from the math practice than children whoscored highest (N = 46). Specifically, the improvement in mathwas correlated with number of practice sessions only for high-RESE children, not for low-RESE children. These resultssuggest that RESE is an important factor in learning math, tobe considered when developing student-centered pedagogy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"learning; math competence; homelessness; summer camp"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45t884jg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Macy","middle_name":"D","last_name":"Cartwright","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cincinnati","department":""},{"first_name":"Heidi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kloos","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Cincinnati","department":""},{"first_name":"Quintino","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Mano","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Cincinnati","department":""},{"first_name":"Casey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hord","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Cincinnati","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27962/galley/17600/download/"}]}