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Neurophysiological Maturity and the Use of ICT in Teaching English
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López, Miriam Romero; Fernández, Montserrat López; Martínez, María Carmen Pichardo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The huge impact of technology in the last few decades, and the ample development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has established them as an essential characteristic of today's society. This vertiginous advance, and the quantity and diversity of changes in knowledge that are being generated, are inducing important…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Writing Tasks and Immediate Auditory Memory in Peruvian Schoolchildren
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Ventura-León, José Luís; Caycho, Tomás – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2017
The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between a group of writing tasks and the immediate auditory memory, as well as to establish differences according to sex and level of study. Two hundred and three schoolchildren of fifth and sixth grade of elementary education from Lima (Peru) participated; they were selected by a…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Memory, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
Planning Behaviour in Good and Poor Readers
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Mahapatra, Shamita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
A group of 50 good readers and a group of 50 poor readers of Grade 5 matched for age and intelligence and selected on the basis of their proficiency in reading comprehension were tested for their competence in word reading and the process of planning at three different levels, namely, perceptual, memory and conceptual in order to study the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Grade 5, Reading Skills, Planning
The Differential Contributions of Auditory-Verbal and Visuospatial Working Memory on Decoding Skills in Children Who Are Poor Decoders
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Squires, Katie Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the differential contribution of auditory-verbal and visuospatial working memory (WM) on decoding skills in second- and fifth-grade children identified with poor decoding. Thirty-two second-grade students and 22 fifth-grade students completed measures that assessed simple and complex auditory-verbal and visuospatial memory,…
Descriptors: Memory, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability
A Quasi-Experimental Study Investigating the Effect of Scent on Students' Memory of Multiplication Facts and Math Anxiety
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Leap, Evelyn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quasi-experimental study was conducted with two fifth grade classrooms to investigate the effect of scent on students' acquisition and retention of multiplication facts and math anxiety. Forty participants received daily instruction for nine weeks, using a strategy-rich multiplication program called Factivation. Students in the Double Smencil…
Descriptors: Olfactory Perception, Memory, Multiplication, Mathematics Anxiety
Attention and Memory in School-Age Children Surviving the Terrorist Attack in Beslan, Russia
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Scrimin, Sara; Moscardino, Ughetta; Capello, Fabia; Axia, Giovanna – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
Little is known about the impact of terrorism on children's cognitive functioning and school learning. The primary purpose of this study was to report on cognitive functioning among school-age children 20 months after a terrorist attack against their school. Participants included 203 directly and indirectly exposed children from Beslan and 100…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Memory, Comparative Analysis, Spatial Ability