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Glass, Arnold Lewis; Sinha, Neha – Educational Psychology, 2013
In the context of an upper-level psychology course, even when students were given an opportunity to refer to text containing the answers and change their exam responses in order to improve their exam scores, their performance on these questions improved slightly or not at all. Four experiments evaluated competing explanations for the students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Item Analysis, Test Norms, Comparative Testing
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Grimley, Michael; Banner, Gloria – Educational Psychology, 2008
This study investigates the interplay of working memory, cognitive style, and behaviour. Year 8 (aged 13 years) students (n = 205) at a UK urban secondary school were tested to ascertain predictors of General Certificate of School Education (GCSE) achievement. Assessment included Riding's cognitive style dimensions, working memory capacity, and a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Multiple Regression Analysis, Memory, Student Behavior