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Medina-Garrido, Elena; León, Jaime – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: Holding a fix or an incremental mindset influence academic performance; we wonder if an intervention would change students' mindsets. The main goal of this study was to design and analyse the effectiveness of an easy to scale intervention to diminish students' belief about intelligence as something innate and fix, and think that we…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Intervention
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Garcia-Madruga, Juan A.; Elosua, Maria Rosa; Gil, Laura; Gomez-Veiga, Isabel; Vila, Jose Oscar; Orjales, Isabel; Contreras, Antonio; Rodriguez, Raquel; Melero, Maria Angeles; Duque, Gonzalo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
Reading comprehension is a highly demanding task that involves the simultaneous process of extracting and constructing meaning in which working memory's executive processes play a crucial role. In this article, a training program on working memory's executive processes to improve reading comprehension is presented and empirically tested in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Spanish, Short Term Memory
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Perez, Luz F.; Beltran, Jesus A. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2008
The purpose of the study was to determine whether the application of a school intervention programme based on the theory of multiple intelligences improves the academic achievement of students with low intellectual capacity, and whether the intervention programme also improves their level of general intelligence. The assessment design is…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Multiple Intelligences, Intervention, Academic Achievement