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Download full textMatteo Giuriato; Nicola Lovecchio – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2025
Aim: This study investigates the impact of an enhanced physical education (PE) program on attentional functions in middle school students. The aim is to evaluate whether increasing physical education hours, emphasizing cognitive tasks and team-based activities, could positively influence students' executive functions. Methods: The study involved…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Program Effectiveness, Attention, Middle School Students
Direct linkLarsen, Sally A.; Little, Callie W.; Coventry, William L. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Attention skills are strong cross-sectional predictors of reading comprehension from childhood through to adolescence. However, less is known about the developmental relations between these two domains across this period. This study examined the codevelopment of reading and attention in a community sample of 614 Australian school students (50%…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Middle School Students
Rogobete, Doris Antonia; Ionescu, Thea; Miclea, Mircea – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
The proliferation of digital gadgets and increased media consumption among adolescents has raised interest and concern regarding possible effects on cognitive functioning. Research investigating this relationship has yielded mixed results. This study aims to replicate the research conducted by Baumgartner et al. concerning the relationship between…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
Reynolds, David; Nicolson, Roderick I. – Dyslexia, 2007
This study reports the results of a long-term follow-up of an exercise-based approach to dyslexia-related disorders (Reynolds, Nicolson, & Hambly, "Dyslexia," 2003; 9(1): 48-71). In the initial study, children at risk of dyslexia were identified in 3 years of a junior school. One half then undertook a 6 month, home-based exercise…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonology, Self Efficacy, Dyslexia
