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Rémi Dorgnier; Marie Mazerolle; François Maquestiaux; Laurence Picard – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Recent studies in psychology emphasize the pivotal roles of adopting a growth mindset to enhance students' motivation and employing effective memory strategies to improve memory performance. This study evaluated the impact of a metacognitive intervention that combined the promotion of a growth mindset with the teaching of efficient learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Memory, Learning Strategies
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Passolunghi, Maria Chiara; De Vita, Chiara; Pellizzoni, Sandra – Developmental Science, 2020
Math anxiety (MA) is a specific feeling of tension generated by the manipulation of numerical stimuli in daily life and academic situations (Richardson & Suinn, 1972). This condition has significant repercussions on the individual's life at personal, social, and economic level. Literature on the topic of MA alleviation, however, is still…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Vernon, D. Sue; Schumaker, Jean Bragg; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This study reports the effects of instruction of elementary students in a complex package of social and academic skills designed for use in cooperative groups while studying important information in inclusive general education classes. Twenty-five teachers and 519 fourth and fifth graders, including 45 students with learning disabilities (LD),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Benick, Manuela; Dörrenbächer-Ulrich, Laura; Weißenfels, Marie; Perels, Franziska – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2021
Teachers play a key role in the development of self-regulated learning (SRL), especially in primary education. However, current results indicate that teachers are either inadequately or only moderately fulfilling this key function, as they spend little time in the instruction of SRL strategies. The objective of the current study was, therefore, to…
Descriptors: Self Management, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Anderson, Cynthia M.; Smith, Tristram; Iovannone, Rose – Education and Treatment of Children, 2018
There is a large gap between research-based interventions for supporting children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and current practices implemented by educators to meet the needs of these children in typical school settings. Myriad reasons for this gap exist including the external validity of existing research, the complexity of ASD, and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Capacity Building, Intervention
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Anderson, Cynthia M.; Smith, Tristram; Iovannone, Rose – Grantee Submission, 2018
There is a large gap between research-based interventions for supporting children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and current practices implemented by educators to meet the needs of these children in typical school settings. Myriad reasons for this gap exist including the external validity of existing research, the complexity of ASD, and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Capacity Building, Intervention
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Wilburne, Jane M.; Dause, Emily – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2017
This study's purpose was to determine the effect of instruction in self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies on low-achieving fourth-grade students' perseverance in solving mathematics problems. This study was conducted with fourth-grade students who had been ability-grouped based on prior low achievement and testing data in math. Students were…
Descriptors: Self Control, Learning Strategies, Low Achievement, Grade 4
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Li, Linlin; Flynn, Kylie; Tripathy, Rachel Grimes; Wang, Jennifer; Austin-King, Kelsey; Graves, Michael F. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study evaluated the efficacy of the Word Learning Strategies (WLS) supplementary program designed to develop upper-elementary students' vocabulary skills in order to improve reading comprehension. The study used a true, group-randomized, experimental design, which randomly assigned 46 4th grade classrooms (n=1324 students) from 12 districts…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies
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Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P. – Cogent Education, 2017
This study investigated the influence of strategy training instruction and an extrinsic incentive on American fourth- and fifth-grade students' (N = 35) performance, confidence in performance, and calibration accuracy. Using an experimental design, children were randomized to either an experimental group (strategy training and an extrinsic…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 4, Grade 5, Training
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Obergriesser, Stefanie; Stoeger, Heidrun – High Ability Studies, 2015
Research has shown that various individual factors play an important role in the underachievement of gifted students. Most often discussed as predictors of underachievement are motivation, learning behavior, and emotions. To examine which specific constructs from these fields simultaneously predict underachievement among gifted fourth graders,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Underachievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Van Meter, Peggy; Aleksic, Maja; Schwartz, Ana; Garner, Joanna – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Learner-generated drawing is a strategy that can improve learning from expository text. In this paper, a model of drawing construction is proposed and the experimental design tests hypotheses derived from this model. Fourth and sixth grade participants used drawing under three experimental conditions with two conditions including varying degrees…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Problem Solving, Learning Strategies
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De La Paz, Susan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2007
This article reviews a specific body of writing intervention research, that of component analyses of cognitive strategy instruction. One rationale for examining the effects of individual components comes from meta-analyses, which indicate powerful intervention outcomes for complex strategies, though it is frequently unclear which component has the…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Educational Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Self Management
Anderson, Stacie; Swiatowy, Colleen – Online Submission, 2008
Our action research project report provided students with social skills training to effectively handle bullying situations in the fourth grade. Our study involved 70 fourth-grade students and began Monday, January 14, 2008 and concluded Friday, May 2, 2008. The behaviors documented from the fourth grade students were name calling, exclusion,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Bullying, Action Research, Cultural Awareness
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Camahalan, Faye Marsha G. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2006
This research was based on the conceptual framework that students' low mathematics achievement in school is related to their poor study habits. Thus, the intervention titled "Mathematics Self-Regulated Learning Program" aimed to help selected children from Southeast Asia (the Philippines) improve their Mathematics achievement,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Study Habits, Mathematics Achievement
Alberta Education, 2007
Young people entering post-secondary institutions or seeking employment generally require senior high school diplomas. There are few jobs available that do not require advanced levels of many kinds of literacy and most employers will consider only those applicants who have completed senior high school, even for entry-level positions. When English…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Speech Communication, Second Languages
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