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Chen, Ouhao; Kalyuga, Slava – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
Cognitive load theory (CLT) uses working memory resources depletion to explain the superiority of spaced learning, predicting that working memory resources will be less taxed if there are resting/spacing periods inserted between learning tasks, in comparison to learning from the same tasks in a single session. This article uses the working memory…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Elementary School Students, Tests, Foreign Countries
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Rotgans, Jerome I.; Schmidt, Henk G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
The objective of this study was to examine how individual interest and knowledge acquisition are causally related. Three hypotheses were tested using a cross-lagged panel analysis (N = 186) and two quasi-experimental studies (N = 68 and N = 108) involving students from schools in Singapore. The first hypothesis is the broadly shared standard…
Descriptors: Correlation, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Interests, Knowledge Level