Effects of the Cognitive Development Method on the Cognitive Development of 10- to 12-Year-old Children

Abstract

Article History: Received 27.04.2014 Received in revised form 17.09.2014 Accepted 20.09.2014 Available online 01.03.2015 In this study, we examined the effectiveness of the Cognitive Development Method, which was designed to solve various problems that may emerge from cognitive processing in daily life, in healthy children. The Cognitive Development Method is a cognitive training program designed to improve the cognitive processing of participants. 201 healthy participants between 10 and 12 years of age were included in the research. Experimental and control groups were tested before and after experimental manipulation. Neuropsychological tests measuring cognitive processes such as memory, attention, problem solving, general ability, planning, and working memory were administered to the participants in both the experimental and the control groups before the experimental manipulation. Following these tests, 131 participants in the experimental group took part in the Cognitive Development Method for 30 days, 5 days a week, 45 minutes a day. Participants in the control group did not receive any training. At the next stage, the neuropsychological tests werere-administered to the participants in both the experimental and the control groups. The final neuropsychological test averages of the participants in the experimental group were higher than those of the participants in the control group. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to the data obtained from the research. The analyses demonstrated that the Cognitive Training Program affects the cognitive development of children positively.© 01:19 IOJES. All rights reserved