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Mason, Lucia; Zaccoletti, Sonia – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Recent research about the learning of science has suggested that misconceptions are not replaced by scientific conceptions and extinguished once conceptual change has occurred. Rather, misconceptions still exist alongside the acquired scientific conceptions and must be suppressed in order to use scientific conceptions. Our goal in this review is…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Learning Processes, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
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Tomasetto, Carlo; Morsanyi, Kinga; Guardabassi, Veronica; O'Connor, Patrick A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Whereas some evidence exists that math anxiety may interfere with math performance from the very beginning of primary school, no study to date has attempted to investigate whether math anxiety may also interfere with early math learning (i.e., the encoding of new math knowledge) and not only with recalling already mastered contents in test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Anxiety, Elementary School Students, Interference (Learning)
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Filicková, Marta; Ropovik, Ivan; Bobaková, Monika; Kovalcíková, Iveta – Journal of Pedagogy, 2015
The main aim of the study was to explore the relationship between fluid intelligence (gf), attentional control (AC), and learning potential (LP), and to investigate the interaction effect between gf and AC on LP. The sample comprised 210 children attending the fourth grade of a standard elementary school. It was hypothesized that the extent of the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Attention Control, Grade 4, Elementary School Students