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Gamo, Sylvie; Sander, Emmanuel; Richard, Jean-Francois – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Transfer of strategies between problems sharing the same formal structure is facilitated by a semantic recoding that makes evident the structural similarities between the problems. Two experiments were carried out among 4th and 5th grade pupils, with an experimental group trained to compare strategies in order to reinterpret an arithmetic word…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Semantics, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Devonshire, Victoria; Fluck, Michael – Learning and Instruction, 2010
English spelling, as well as in many other languages, consists of three elements: morphology, etymology and phonology. Spelling instruction, however, focuses primarily on phonology and there is a dearth of intervention studies that examine the effect of explicitly teaching all three elements to children. We report two studies, which examined 5- to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, Intervention, Phonology
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Saetrevik, Bjorn; Reber, Rolf; Sannum, Petter – Learning and Instruction, 2006
The potential impact of implicit learning on education has been repeatedly stressed, though little research has examined this connection directly. The current paper describes two experiments that, inspired by artificial grammar learning experiments, examine the utility of implicit learning as a method for teaching atomic bonding rules to 11-12…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Experiments, Elementary School Students
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Bornas, Xavier; Servera, Mateu – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Twenty-one impulsive fifth and sixth graders with low academic achievement were assigned to (1) self-instruction (SI) training; (2) problem solving (PS) training; or (3) a control condition. SI and PS training produced improvement in impulsivity and achievement, but only the impulsivity decrease was maintained at six months. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes