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The Effect of Different Goals and Self-Recording on Self-Regulation of Learning a Motor Skill in a Physical Education Setting
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Kolovelonis, Athanasios; Goudas, Marios; Dermitzaki, Irini – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This study examined the effect of different goals (process, performance outcome, and multiple goals) and self-recording on self-regulation of learning a dart-throwing skill. Participants were 105 fifth and sixth graders who were randomly assigned to six (3 Goal type x 2 self-recording) experimental and one control group. Results showed a positive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Physical Education, Academic Achievement, Psychomotor Skills
Transfer of Strategy Use by Semantic Recoding in Arithmetic Problem Solving
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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)
Spelling Pronunciations: Transforming Irregularity into Regularity
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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
The Effects of Explicit Teaching of Metastrategic Knowledge on Low- And High-Achieving Students
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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