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Strukelj, Alexander; Scheiter, Katharina; Nyström, Marcus; Holmqvist, Kenneth – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
An eye-tracking study with 60 native Swedish speakers (18-30 years) was conducted to investigate the positive effects on learning outcomes predicted by the disfluency effect. Subtle low-pass filtering was used as a disfluency manipulation and compared with a control condition using regular text. The text was presented on four separate text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eye Movements, Swedish, Native Speakers
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Wiklund-Hornqvist, Carola – Educational Psychology, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between working memory capacity and mathematical performance measured by the national curriculum assessment in third-grade children (n = 40). The national tests concerned six subareas within mathematics. One-way ANOVA, two-tailed Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses were…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Primary Education, Educational Attainment, Short Term Memory
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Taber, Keith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Many studies into learners' ideas in science have reported that aspects of learners' thinking can be represented in terms of entities described in such terms as alternative conceptions or conceptual frameworks, which are considered to describe relatively stable aspects of conceptual knowledge that are represented in the learner's memory and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Misconceptions, Models, Cognitive Processes