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The Relationship between Mental Rotation and Arithmetic: Do Number Line Estimation, Working Memory, or Place-Value Concept Matter?
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Yang, Xiujie; Yu, Xiao – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Mental rotation is positively related to arithmetic ability; however, the mechanism underlying this relationship remains unclear. The possible roles of working memory, place-value concept, and number line estimation in the correlation between mental rotation and whole-number computation were investigated. One hundred and fifty-five first-grade…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Arithmetic, Short Term Memory
Enabling Automatic Retrieval of Schemas from Long-Term Memory in English Grammar Practice
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Guo, Lina; Wang, Chuang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
People are increasingly aware that metacognition can help us solve problems more effectively. Scholars believe that students' metacognition can be facilitated by promoting the interplay between the unlimited long work memory for holding schemas and limited work memory for processing ongoing activities. In this study, a workshop designed teacher…
Descriptors: Grammar, Memory, Language Processing, English (Second Language)
Web-Based Intonation Training Helps Improve ESL and EFL Chinese Students' Oral Speech
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Jiang, Yan; Chun, Dorothy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper examines whether a web-based training on English discourse intonation leads to better spontaneous speech quality for Mandarin Chinese speakers who reside in the U.S. and in China. The four-week fully online training consisted of meta-instruction videos as well as listening and speaking activities, including instant visual pitch contour…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sex, Birth Order, and Creativity in the Context of China's One-Child Policy and Son Preference
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Guo, Jiajun; Lin, Shengjie; Guo, Yawei – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the influences of sibling constellation (sex and birth order) on creativity in the context of China's one-child policy (OCP) and Confucian culture (e.g., preference for male offspring). Participants were recruited from a public university in east China and were asked to complete 2 divergent thinking tests,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Problem Solving, Birth Order, Imagination
What Learning Analytics Tells Us: Group Behavior Analysis and Individual Learning Diagnosis Based on Long-Term and Large-Scale Data
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Zhang, Jia-Hua; Zhang, Ye-Xing; Zou, Qin; Huang, Sen – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
The practice and application of education data mining and learning analytics has become the focus of educational researchers. However, it is still a difficult task to explore the law of group learning and the characteristics of individual learning. In this study, the online learning logs of 1,088 students from 22 classes were analyzed from the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Diaries
Effects of Attention Cueing on Learning Speech Organ Operation through Mobile Phones
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Yang, Hui-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The studies regarding using a cross sectional view of speech organs enriched with attention cueing and written text to probe learners' learning efficiency and behavior through mobile phones is scant. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the presence of attention cueing can benefit learners with different amounts of prior knowledge in…
Descriptors: Cues, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Attention