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Bye, Jeffrey K.; Harsch, Rina M.; Varma, Sashank – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Algebraic thinking and strategy flexibility are essential to advanced mathematical thinking. Early algebra instruction uses 'missing-operand' problems (e.g., x - 7 = 2) solvable via two typical strategies: (1) direct retrieval of arithmetic facts (e.g., 9 - 7 = 2) and (2) performance of the inverse operation (e.g., 2 + 7 = 9). The current study…
Descriptors: Algebra, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic
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Stadler, Matthias; Becker, Nicolas; Schult, Johannes; Niepel, Christoph; Spinath, Frank M.; Sparfeldt, Jörn R.; Greiff, Samuel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
The successful completion of a university degree program is accompanied by multiple complex opportunities and challenges, which require students to react accordingly with the skills necessary to meet them. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of complex-problem solving (CPS) skills in undergraduate students' university…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade Point Average, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement
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Arabmofrad, Ali; Badi, Mehdi; Rajaee Pitehnoee, Mehran – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The past decade has witnessed a plethora of research to study the relationship between reading strategies and reading comprehension, but few studies have examined the brain functionality; more specifically the relationship between hemispheric dominance and reading strategies. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether there would be any…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhu, Wenfeng; Yang, Wenjing; Qiu, Jiang; Tian, Fang; Chen, Qunlin; Cao, Guikang; Zhang, Qinglin; Ming, Dan – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
Evidence from a range of fields shows that representation-connection (RC) is the key step towards the solution of a real-world insight problem. However, no study has focused on the inter-individual variability in RC, and little is known about whether structural and resting-state functional signals can account for inter-individual differences in…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Problem Solving
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Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2018
This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated with better quality text, to a dual-process account, which attributes discovery to the combined effect of 2 conflicting processes with opposing relationships to text quality.…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Metacognition, Correlation
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Rowe, Elizabeth; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Almeda, Mia; Gasca, Santiago; Edwards, Teon; Bardar, Erin; Shute, Valerie; Ventura, Matthew – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2021
The Inclusive Assessment of Computational Thinking (CT) designed for accessibility and learner variability was studied in over 50 classes in US schools (grades 3-8). The validation studies of IACT sampled thousands of students to establish IACT's construct and concurrent validity as well as test-retest reliability. IACT items for each CT practice…
Descriptors: Puzzles, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Construct Validity
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Nelson, Lindsey J.; Fyfe, Emily R. – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
Metacognition is central to children's cognitive development. However, there is conflicting evidence about children's ability to accurately monitor their performance and subsequently control their behavior. This is of particular interest for mathematics topics on which children exhibit persistent misconceptions--that is, when children's knowledge…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Help Seeking, Decision Making, Self Esteem
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Unsworth, Nash; Robison, Matthew K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
A great deal of prior research has examined the relation between working memory capacity (WMC) and attention control. The current study explored the role of arousal in individual differences in WMC and attention control. Participants performed multiple WMC and attention control tasks. During the attention control tasks participants were…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Correlation
K., Abdul Gafoor; Kurukkan, Abidha – Online Submission, 2016
Self-regulated learning is identified as a fruitful learning strategy as evidenced from the increase in the number of researches in academic self-regulation since year 2000. Knowing to manage one's own learning is helpful in attaining the goals. This analysis of literature on self-regulated learning focuses on the factors that affect…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Learning Motivation, Mathematics Education
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Lin, Wei-Lun; Lien, Yunn-Wen – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
This study examined how working memory plays different roles in open-ended versus closed-ended creative problem-solving processes, as represented by divergent thinking tests and insight problem-solving tasks. With respect to the analysis of different task demands and the framework of dual-process theories, the hypothesis was that the idea…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Role
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Bijvoet-van den Berg, Simone; Hoicka, Elena – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Divergent thinking shows the ability to search for new ideas, which is an important factor contributing to innovation and problem solving. Current divergent thinking tests allow researchers to study children's divergent thinking from the age of 3 years on. This article presents the first measure of divergent thinking that can be used with children…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Age Differences, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Goldin, Ilya M.; Koedinger, Kenneth R.; Aleven, Vincent – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2012
Although ITSs are supposed to adapt to differences among learners, so far, little attention has been paid to how they might adapt to differences in how students learn from help. When students study with an Intelligent Tutoring System, they may receive multiple types of help, but may not comprehend and make use of this help in the same way. To…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Individual Differences, Prediction
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Cho, Seokhee – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The role of IQ in individual differences in real-life problem solving and strategies use was explored. Repeated trials of learning and recall of information from a map were analyzed with high IQ and average IQ Korean students. IQ correlated with the selection and use of strategies in recall. However, the performance and strategic behaviors of…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Metacognition, Maps, Individual Differences
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Storm, Benjamin C.; Angello, Genna; Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Research on retrieval-induced forgetting has shown that retrieval can cause the forgetting of related or competing items in memory (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). In the present research, we examined whether an analogous phenomenon occurs in the context of creative problem solving. Using the Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962), we…
Descriptors: Animals, Stimuli, Problem Solving, Memory
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Reeve, Robert; Reynolds, Fiona; Humberstone, Judi; Butterworth, Brian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Dot enumeration (DE) and number comparison (NC) abilities are considered markers of core number competence. Differences in DE/NC reaction time (RT) signatures are thought to distinguish between typical and atypical number development. Whether a child's DE and NC signatures change or remain stable over time, relative to other developmental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Profiles, Children, Reaction Time
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