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A Historical Review of "Contemporary Educational Psychology" from 1995 to 2010
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Mitchell, Anita Witt; McConnell, John Robert, III – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
The major themes and trends represented by the articles published in "Contemporary Educational Psychology" (CEP) from 1995 to 2010 are reviewed in this paper. Included are the major topics, theoretical perspectives, participant characteristics, research methods and statistics used, and highly cited papers. The most frequently occurring topic…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, History, Self Efficacy, Educational Psychology
Subtypes of Reading Disability in a Shallow Orthography: A Double Dissociation between Accuracy-Disabled and Rate-Disabled Readers of Hebrew
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Shany, Michal; Share, David L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
Whereas most English language sub-typing schemes for dyslexia (e.g., Castles & Coltheart, "1993") have focused on reading accuracy for words varying in regularity, such an approach may have limited utility for reading disability sub-typing beyond English in which fluency rather than accuracy is the key discriminator of developmental and individual…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Reading Ability
What Discrete and Serial Rapid Automatized Naming Can Reveal about Reading
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de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Serial rapid automized naming (RAN) has been often found to correlate more strongly with reading than discrete RAN. This study aimed to demonstrate that the strength of the RAN-reading fluency relationship is dependent on the format of both RAN and the reading task if the reading task consists of sight words. Seventy-one first-grade, 74…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading
The Actual Use of Embedded Support Devices in Self-Study Materials by Students in a Distance Education Setting: Theoretical Base and Research Approaches.
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Valcke, M. M. A.; Martens, R. L. – 1992
An attempt is made to elaborate a theoretical base about the functions and effects of embedded support devices (ESDs), considering the extent to which students actually use ESDs. ESDs are a set of activating, structuring, and motivating extras in study materials that are designed to support the individual study process. The report describes the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, College Students, Distance Education, Educational Environment