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De Weerdt, Frauke; Desoete, Annemie; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Elementary school children with reading disabilities (RD; "n" = 17), mathematical disabilities (MD; "n" = 22), or combined reading and mathematical disabilities (RD+MD; "n" = 28) were compared to average achieving (AA; "n" = 45) peers on working memory measures. On all working memory components, 2 (RD vs. no…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Short Term Memory, Reading Difficulties, Mathematics Skills
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Gevers, Wim; Santens, Seppe; Dhooge, Elisah; Chen, Qi; Van den Bossche, Lisa; Fias, Wim; Verguts, Tom – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
A tight correspondence has been postulated between the representations of number and space. The spatial numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect, which reflects the observation that people respond faster with the left-hand side to small numbers and with the right-hand side to large numbers, is regarded as strong evidence for this…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Number Concepts, Correlation, Interaction
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Iserbyt, Peter; Mols, Liesbet; Elen, Jan; Behets, Daniel – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
This study adds to the literature by introducing multimedia research in the psychomotor area. In this study, 87 freshman students in pedagogy used task cards to learn Basic Life Support (BLS), a psychomotor skill consisting of nine lifesaving actions to be performed in a specific order. Task cards are printed materials and are often implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Results, Printed Materials, Psychomotor Objectives