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Buff, Alex; Reusser, Kurt; Rakoczy, Katrin; Pauli, Christine – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This study investigated students' activating positive affective experiences in mathematics lessons, their antecedents, their cognitive and motivational consequences, as well as their effect on achievement. The participants were 682 Grade 8 and 9 students from 37 classes from Germany and Switzerland who participated in a video study of lessons on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Cognitive Processes, Grade 9
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Olive, Thierry; Favart, Monik; Beauvais, Caroline; Beauvais, Lucie – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study investigated the cognitive effort of 5th and 9th graders while writing a text. We manipulated genre (narrative text vs. argumentative text) and tested how level of handwriting automatisation contributes to cognitive effort and fluency in writing. The participants were 23 students from Grade 5 and 21 from Grade 9, who wrote two texts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reaction Time, Handwriting, Grade 9