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Direct linkGoudas, Marios; Giannoudis, Georgios – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of a team-sports-based life-skills program taught as part of physical education lessons. One hundred sixty-five sixth and eighth graders were assigned either in an experimental or in a control group and received an abbreviated version of SUPER, a team-sports-based program. The program focused…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physical Education, Grade 8
Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The present study extended multimedia learning principles beyond the lab to an ecologically valid setting (homework). Eighteen information cards were used to perform three homework tasks. The control group students learned from single representation (SR) cards that presented all information as printed text. The multiple representation (MR) group…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Homework, Printed Materials, Learning Motivation
Zohar, Anat; Peled, Bracha – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study assessed the effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge (MSK) on gains of low-achieving (LA) and high-achieving (HA) 5th grade students (N=41). Gains in reasoning scores of students from the Experimental group (compared to students from the control group) were obtained on the strategic and on the metastrategic level. Gains…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Grade 5, Teaching Methods
Lee, Yuh-shiow; Lu, Min-ju; Ko, Hsiu-ping – Learning and Instruction, 2007
In this study we examined the effects of skill training, in particular mental abacus and music training, on working memory. Two groups of participants--children who had received mental abacus training and their controls--participated in Experiment 1. All participants performed the following span tasks: forward digit span, backward digit span,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Music, Control Groups, Short Term Memory
Berthold, Kirsten; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Although writing learning protocols is an effective follow-up course work activity, many learners tend to do it in a rather suboptimal way. Hence, we analyzed the effects of instructional support in the form of prompts. The effects of different types of prompts were investigated in an experiment with four conditions: cognitive prompts,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Psychology, Undergraduate Students
