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Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Carr, Martha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
A model of expertise in physics was tested on a sample of 374 college students in 2 different level physics courses. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships among variables linked to expert performance in physics including strategy use, pictorial representation, categorization skills, and motivation, and these…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Physics, Student Motivation
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Rabinowitz, Mitchell; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Two experiments were conducted with 124 undergraduate and graduate students to investigate the interaction between strategy use and accessibility to relevant knowledge. Variations in relevant knowledge accessibility significantly affected strategy use on the first memorization trial, and ease of use on the first trial affected maintenance of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Epistemology, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Stevens, Robert J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
The effectiveness of methods teaching how to identify the main idea of expository paragraphs was tested using 47 remedial reading 6th through 11th graders. Tested were: strategy training; classification training; combined training; and practice only. Strategy training improved performance, while classification training only improved performance…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Short, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
Effects of task demands, age, and skill level on memory and metamemory performance were examined for 62 average and 66 low-achieving learning-disabled children. Memory improved with age and skill level, and strategic metamemory revealed age and skill-level differences, but taxonomic metamemory revealed age differences in the average group only.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Classification, Comparative Testing