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Adi Avramovich; Menahem Yeari – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
The present study explored whether poor executive functions (EF) underlying the difficulties of individuals with ADHD in reading comprehension (RC) are general or specific to the textual content they regulate. To address this question, adolescents with and without ADHD answered questions following the reading of texts and completed a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Grade 8
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Adi Avramovich; Menahem Yeari – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This study explored the manner in which poor planning skill impairs reading comprehension of students with ADHD. Ninety-six adolescents with and without ADHD completed a planning task (Tower of London) and answered open-ended questions following the reading of two expository texts under two reading goals - study and entertainment, while their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Grade 8
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Avramovich, Adi; Yeari, Menahem – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
The present study explored (a) whether differences between students with and without ADHD in reading comprehension are explained by their executive functions, and (b) the unique and shared contribution of the various executive functions to reading comprehension ability. To address these questions, ninety-six adolescents with and without ADHD…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Palatnik, Alik; Koichu, Boris – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The goal of the study was to reconstruct and dismantle a sequence of events that preceded an insight solution to a challenging problem by a ninth-grade student. A three-week long solution process was analysed by means of the theory of shifts of attention. We argue that concurrent focusing on what, how and why the student attends to when working on…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving