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Friedman, Daniela B.; Laditka, Sarah B.; Laditka, James N.; Price, Anna E. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
Health behaviors, particularly physical activity, may promote cognitive health. The public agenda for health behaviors is influenced by popular media. We analyzed the cognitive health content of 20 United States magazines, examining every page of every 2006-2007 issue of the highest circulating magazines for general audiences, women, men, African…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Public Health, Health Behavior
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Ding, Meixia; Li, Xiaobao; Piccolo, Diana; Kulm, Gerald – Journal of Educational Research, 2007
The authors examined the extent to which teacher interventions focused on students' mathematical thinking in naturalistic cooperative-learning mathematics classroom settings. The authors also observed 6 videotapes about the same teaching content using similar curriculum from 2 states. They created 2 instruments for coding the quality of teacher…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning
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Gilmore, Grover C.; Royer, Fred L.; Gruhn, Joseph J.; Esson, Michael J. – Intelligence, 2004
Substitution tests have a long history in psychology because of their simplicity of administration and their sensitivity to individual differences related to complex cognitive performance. Despite their widespread use there is no agreement on what the substitution test measures. The present study approached this question by applying a method of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Symbols (Mathematics), Visual Stimuli, Coding