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Bayard, Natalie S.; Loon, Mariëtte H.; Steiner, Martina; Roebers, Claudia M. – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated age-dependent improvements of monitoring and control in 7/8- and 9/10-year-old children. We addressed prospective (judgments of learning and restudy selections) and retrospective metacognitive skills (confidence judgments and withdrawal of answers). Children (N = 305) completed a paired-associate learning task twice, with a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Age Groups, Metacognition
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Lervag, Arne; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
We examined the growth of spelling skills in a large sample of Norwegian children (N = 228) over the first 3 years in school. The roles of phoneme awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN), visual-verbal paired-associate learning, and verbal short-term memory as predictors of later spelling skills were examined. Phoneme awareness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Reading Skills, Skill Development
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Levin, Joel R. – Educational Psychologist, 2008
This article focuses on the early research domains investigated by Michael Pressley, along with the integrations and initiatives that were inspired by them. These research domains include verbal and imagery elaboration memory strategies, and developmental aspects of them; interrogative elaboration; pictorial strategies for language and literacy…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Psychology, Memory, Literacy
Hunt, Darwin P. – 1980
A conceptual framework of a process by which persons assess and express levels of sureness in the correctness of responses which they anticipate making--or having already made but not yet received knowledge of results--is proposed. It is hypothesized that the rate at which a person's behavior is modified by knowledge of results is affected by the…
Descriptors: Adults, Confidence Testing, Learning Processes, Military Training
Weinstein, Claire E.; And Others – 1980
As part of a research program to identify training methods which optimize skill acquisition and retention, three studies were conducted to assess the effects of type of training, amount of practice, and guided discussion in cognitive learning strategies training programs. Undergraduate students enrolled in educational psychology courses were…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Paired Associate Learning