To elucidate age differences in responses to free-recall prompts (i.e., invitations and cued invitations) and focused recognition prompts (i.e., option-posing and suggestive utterances), the authors examined 130 forensic interviews of 4- to 8-year-old alleged victims of sexual abuse. There were age differences in the total number of details elicited as well as in the number of details elicited ...

With easy access to and exponential growth of online resources in the last decade, the Web has become the primary information source to middle school students for their school work. Yet, prior research has shown that students have difficulty evaluating, reading, and taking notes from online resources. This study analyzed the effectiveness of a digital notepad, which used prompts to scaffold mid...