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Working Memory and Mathematics: A Review of Developmental, Individual Difference, and Cognitive Approaches
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Raghubar, Kimberly P.; Barnes, Marcia A.; Hecht, Steven A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Working memory refers to a mental workspace, involved in controlling, regulating, and actively maintaining relevant information to accomplish complex cognitive tasks (e.g. mathematical processing). Despite the potential relevance of a relation between working memory and math for understanding developmental and individual differences in…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive Processes
No "g" in Education?
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Brunner, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study investigates the relationships of domain-general cognitive abilities and domain-specific verbal and mathematical abilities to students' educational characteristics when two theoretically grounded, but competing structural models are applied. In the standard model, a single latent ability causes interindividual differences in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability
Personality and Approaches to Learning Predict Preference for Different Teaching Methods
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian; Lewis, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
A total of 221 (111 female and 110 male) British Medical students completed the NEO-FFI personality inventory [Costa, P. T., Jr., and McCrae, R. R. (1992). "Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual." Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.], an abbreviated version of Biggs'…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Medical Students, Educational Research, Psychological Evaluation