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Singer, Vivian; Strasser, Kathernie – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Many studies of school achievement find a significant association between reading and arithmetic achievement. The magnitude of the association varies widely across the studies, but the sources of this variation have not been identified. The purpose of this paper is to examine the magnitude and determinants of the relation between arithmetic and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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D'Amico, Antonella; Passolunghi, Maria Chiara – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
We report a two-year longitudinal study aimed at investigating the rate of access to numerical and non-numerical information in long-term memory and the functioning of automatic and effortful cognitive inhibition processes in children with arithmetical learning disabilities (ALDs). Twelve children with ALDs, of age 9.3 years, and twelve…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Meltzer, Lynn J.; And Others – 1984
The associations among cognitive automatization, abstract problem solving, and educational performance were studied using 127 fourth to ninth grade students. A number of measures of fast, automatic, and fluent performance (FAF measures) were used: writing the alphabet; reading from a word list; and mentally performing arithmetic operations. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Cognitive Measurement