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Speece, Deborah L.; Case, Lisa Pericola – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
This study evaluated an alternative method of identifying early reading difficulty. From a sample of 1st and 2nd grade children, 47 were identified as dually discrepant in reading and compared with 28 children identified as low achieving. Single point measures of fluency and phonological awareness were not sensitive indicators of problems,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals)
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Alloway, Tracy Packiam – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
Working memory plays a key role in supporting children's learning over the school years, and beyond this into adulthood. It is proposed here that working memory is crucially required to store information while other material is being mentally manipulated during the classroom learning activities that form the foundations for the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Economically Disadvantaged, Short Term Memory, Academic Achievement