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The Facilitation of Information Processing in Learning Disabled Children Using Computer Games.
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Margalit, Malka; And Others – Educational Psychology, 1987
Reports on an experiment which used computer games to increase the efficiency of information processing and concentration skills among learning disabled (LD) children. Results showed that computer games presented within the framework of self-verbalization procedures and peer-interaction facilitated the information processing of LD children.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
The Computer as a Zone of Proximal Development: Internalizing Reading-Related Metacognitions from a Reading Partner.
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Salomon, Gavriel; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
This study tested the hypothesis that effortful interaction with a computer tool that provides reading-related guided interaction on a meta-cognitive level results in the internalization of the guidance and later improved reading comprehension. Results with 25 seventh graders in Tel Aviv using a specially designed tool--the Reading…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education