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Kitty K. Y. Tsang; Shui-fong Lam – Chinese Education & Society, 2025
This study compared the effectiveness of two encoding strategies (peg system vs. conceptual understanding) on serial learning. Sixty Chinese 5th graders from a primary school in Hong Kong participated in training on the two strategies in two consecutive weeks. While half of the students learned peg system in the first week and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mnemonics, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5
Hall, Vernon C. – 1969
Clarification of one aspect of Jensen's model of cognitive abilities provided the impetus for this study. Jensen found that sentence construction as a mediator facilitated learning of paired associates, except when kindergarteners were used as subjects. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether the failure of the mediators to…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Ability