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Hunter, Roberta; Hunter, Jodie; Bills, Trevor; Thompson, Zain – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
While there is widespread agreement that "all" learners of the 21st century need to be numerate and literate, reforming pedagogical practices to achieve such an outcome is challenging for many teachers. This is a report of one aspect of a project which aims to integrate a culturally responsive pedagogical mathematics practice within…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Inquiry, Mathematics Activities, Integrated Activities
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Peters, Erin E.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Educational Psychology, 2010
The purpose of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of a metacognitive prompts intervention-science (MPI-S), which is based on the nature of science with 162 eighth-grade science students. It was hypothesised that students exposed to the intervention will show higher levels of content knowledge and knowledge about the nature of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Intervention, Scientific Principles, Metacognition
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Berthiaume, Kristen S.; Lorch, Elizabeth P.; Milich, Richard – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2010
Objective: The present study examines the ability of children with ADHD to make inferences and monitor ongoing understanding of texts, to shed light on their academic difficulties. Method: A total of 29 boys with ADHD and 41 comparison boys between the ages of 7 and 12 participated. Three tasks measure how boys create and evaluate inferences,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorders, Inferences, Males
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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