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Villiger, Caroline; Niggli, Alois; Wandeler, Christian; Kutzelmann, Sabine – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study examined the effects of a school/home-based intervention program designed to enhance the reading motivation and comprehension of Swiss fourth graders (N = 713). In order to identify the specific contribution of the home environment, the program was implemented in one group "without" (N = 244) and in one group "with"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Experimental Groups, Comparative Analysis
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Gamo, Sylvie; Sander, Emmanuel; Richard, Jean-Francois – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Transfer of strategies between problems sharing the same formal structure is facilitated by a semantic recoding that makes evident the structural similarities between the problems. Two experiments were carried out among 4th and 5th grade pupils, with an experimental group trained to compare strategies in order to reinterpret an arithmetic word…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Semantics, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Devonshire, Victoria; Fluck, Michael – Learning and Instruction, 2010
English spelling, as well as in many other languages, consists of three elements: morphology, etymology and phonology. Spelling instruction, however, focuses primarily on phonology and there is a dearth of intervention studies that examine the effect of explicitly teaching all three elements to children. We report two studies, which examined 5- to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, Intervention, Phonology
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Landerl, Karin; Thaler, Verena; Reitsma, Pieter – Learning and Instruction, 2008
In a 10-day training, the efficacy of spelling pronunciations on German speaking 5th-graders' spelling skills for irregular words was examined. Poor spellers were less efficient in learning the spelling pronunciations than age-adequate spellers. On post-tests, 1 week after the last training day and between 5 and 12 weeks after post-test 1, poor…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, German, Grade 5
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Zohar, Anat; Peled, Bracha – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study assessed the effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge (MSK) on gains of low-achieving (LA) and high-achieving (HA) 5th grade students (N=41). Gains in reasoning scores of students from the Experimental group (compared to students from the control group) were obtained on the strategic and on the metastrategic level. Gains…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Grade 5, Teaching Methods
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Saetrevik, Bjorn; Reber, Rolf; Sannum, Petter – Learning and Instruction, 2006
The potential impact of implicit learning on education has been repeatedly stressed, though little research has examined this connection directly. The current paper describes two experiments that, inspired by artificial grammar learning experiments, examine the utility of implicit learning as a method for teaching atomic bonding rules to 11-12…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Experiments, Elementary School Students