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Direct linkGinns, Paul; Muscat, Katherine; Naylor, Ryan – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objective: When students learn or solve problems, attentional resources are depleted; rest breaks may restore cognitive functioning in support of learning. Research framed by attention restoration theory holds that exposure to natural environments may be another means to restore attentional resources. The study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Intervals, Attention, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Singer, Vivian; Strasser, Kathernie – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Many studies of school achievement find a significant association between reading and arithmetic achievement. The magnitude of the association varies widely across the studies, but the sources of this variation have not been identified. The purpose of this paper is to examine the magnitude and determinants of the relation between arithmetic and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
D'Amico, Antonella; Passolunghi, Maria Chiara – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and non-numerical information in long-term memory and the functioning of automatic and effortful cognitive inhibition processes in children with arithmetical learning disabilities (ALDs). Twelve children with ALDs, of age 9.3 years, and twelve…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Download full textHartlep, Nicholas D. – Online Submission, 2008
The effects of using homework guides, and homework logs on students' abilities to solve word problems involving basic addition and subtraction facts were studied. Students received one of three versions of addition and subtraction timed tests once per week--every Thursday--that focused on measuring automaticity of basic addition and subtraction…
Descriptors: Homework, Timed Tests, Word Problems (Mathematics), Subtraction
Seeley, Cathy L. – Math Solutions, 2009
NCTM Past President Cathy L. Seeley shares her messages on today's most relevant topics and issues in education. Based on Cathy L. Seeley's award-winning NCTM President's Messages, and including dozens of new messages, this must-have K-12 resource offers straight talk and common sense about some of today's most important, thought-provoking issues…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Achievement Gap, Creativity
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Pearson, M. Rufina; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study examined the effects of extra time on the reading comprehension performance of a heterogeneous group of adults with reading disabilities. Sixty-four adults participated. A clinic that assesses learning disabilities identified 22 as reading disabled, and 42 as normal readers. The 64 adults took a reading comprehension test under both…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
