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Maricic, Mirjana; Cvjeticanin, Stanko; Andevski, Milica; Andic, Branko – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: The question of the efficiency of withholding answers and the physical manipulation of material in science education has become the target of a large number of researchers (proponents of the Cognitive Load Theory) in recent years. However, no research has been found examining the contribution of these elements of teaching to the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Magnets, Manipulative Materials, Scientific Concepts
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Cheung, Yin Ling; Chu, Yi-Ning Joyce; Jang, Hari – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2021
While the last two decades have witnessed a growing body of research on the quality of student writing, research on the impact of the socio-cognitive approach on young learners' writing has remained scarce. To fill this gap, this study investigates the effects of the socio-cognitive approach on the writing quality of 98 fourth graders in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Writing Improvement
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Zhang, Su-Zhen; Georgiou, George K. – Educational Psychology, 2022
We examined the developmental relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills (nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming [RAN]), home environment factors (direct teaching, shared book reading, access to literacy resources, parents' expectations, family's socioeconomic status [SES]), and pinyin letter knowledge in…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Family Environment, Phonological Awareness, Direct Instruction
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White, Matthew Oliver – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2020
Academically engaging adolescents with learning difficulties continues to be a challenge for teachers and education authorities around the world. This paper reports on one part of a broader study to address the impasse present between research and practice in meeting the needs of adolescents with learning difficulties. Drawing on the mounting…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Positive Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Mason, Lucia; Tornatora, Maria Caterina – Educational Psychology, 2016
The study aimed to extend current research on conditions that better support analogical encoding through mutual alignment. We focused on two variables that have not been examined independently in previous studies: the joint presentations of two cases of a scientific phenomenon and the explicit instructions for comparison. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Logical Thinking, Grade 5, Grade 7
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Swanson, H. Lee; Moran, Amber; Lussier, Cathy; Fung, Wenson – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of explicit, direct, and generative strategy training and working memory capacity (WMC) on mathematical word problem-solving accuracy in elementary schoolchildren. In this study, children in third grade ("N" = 82) identified as at risk for math difficulties (MD) were randomly…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Hushman, Carolyn J.; Marley, Scott C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors investigated whether the amount of instructional guidance affects science learning and self-efficacy. Sixty 9- and 10-year-old children were randomly assigned to one of the following three instructional conditions: (a) guided instruction consisting of examples and student-generated explanations, (b) direct instruction consisting of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Science Education, Science Instruction
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Mason, Linda H. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2013
Explicit strategy instruction combined with student-directed self-regulation in conjunction with cognitive strategies has proven effective in supporting low-achieving students' reading comprehension. Experts have extended 1 such approach, self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) for the expository reading comprehension Think before reading,…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Reading Strategies