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Nesrin Sahin; Juli K. Dixon; Robert C. Schoen – Grantee Submission, 2020
This observational study used data from 270 second-grade students to investigate the association between students' strategy use for multidigit addition and subtraction and their mathematics achievement. Based on strategies they used during a mathematics interview, students were classified into the following strategy groups: (a) standard algorithm,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Tejada, Venecia Tejada – Online Submission, 2019
The learning strategies involved in the acquisition of a second language have been a topic of high interest in recent years, without at the moment there being consensus on its categorization, the nature of its operation or on its empowerment in the applied context. The purpose of the study was to investigate the different language learning…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Social Development, Emotional Development, English (Second Language)
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Vasilyeva, Marina; Ganley, Colleen M.; Casey, Beth M.; Dulaney, Alana; Tillinger, Miriam; Anderson, Karen – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
This study explores changes in students' strategies as they solve different types of volume problems. Fifth graders were presented with pictures showing 3D objects and a unit cube; they determined how many cubes made up the object and explained their responses. We examined whether children transferred strategies across problem types, varying in…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Pictorial Stimuli, Grade 5
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Liu, Hui-ju; Chen, Ting-Han – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study mainly investigates language anxiety and its relationship to the use of learning strategies and multiple intelligences among young learners in an EFL educational context. The participants were composed of 212 fifth- and sixth-graders from elementary schools in central Taiwan. Findings indicated that most participants generally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Tretter, Thomas R. – Modern Language Journal, 2013
As the school-aged English language learner (ELL) population continues to grow in the United States and other English-speaking countries, psychometrically sound instruments to measure their language learning strategies (LLS) become ever more critical. This study adapted and validated an adult-oriented measure of LLS (50-item "Strategy…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Measures (Individuals)
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Chang, Yi-Chun; Kao, Wen-Yan; Chu, Chih-Ping; Chiu, Chiung-Hui – Computers & Education, 2009
With the growing demand in e-learning, numerous research works have been done to enhance teaching quality in e-learning environments. Among these studies, researchers have indicated that adaptive learning is a critical requirement for promoting the learning performance of students. Adaptive learning provides adaptive learning materials, learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style, Educational Quality, Learning Strategies
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Rule, Audrey C. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
This guest editorial describes ways teachers can use guessing games about an unknown item in a "mystery box" to help children improve their abilities to listen to others, recall information, ask purposeful questions, classify items by class, make inferences, synthesize information, and draw conclusions. The author presents information…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Attention Span, Inferences
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Cox, Brian D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Attempted to determine whether 170 third and sixth graders would benefit from the simultaneous use of 2 mnemonic strategies. Findings suggest that categorical sorting and active rehearsal combine to facilitate recall performance. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Justice, Elaine M. – 1984
Developmental changes leading to mature judgments of the relative effectiveness of verbal memory strategies were examined in 60 subjects (20 each from second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade classrooms). Subjects viewed videotapes of a female child who was given the task of remembering a set of categorizable pictures. Demonstrations of four memory…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Lange, Garrett; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
Investigated 48 preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children's use of perceptual and taxonomic memory organization strategies. Addressed age differences in qualities, coordination, and effectiveness of study and retrieval organization strategies, and age and individual differences in relationships between memory knowledge and strategy use.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures
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Gaultney, Jane F.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992
Two experiments with 42 second graders, 55 fourth graders, and 36 fifth graders investigated previous findings of a lack of strategic advantage for expert children dealing with information in their area of expertise. Results from using an expert-novice paradigm suggest that expert children's task advantage is mediated primarily by nonstrategic…
Descriptors: Baseball, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Stevens, Robert J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
The effectiveness of methods teaching how to identify the main idea of expository paragraphs was tested using 47 remedial reading 6th through 11th graders. Tested were: strategy training; classification training; combined training; and practice only. Strategy training improved performance, while classification training only improved performance…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Short, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
Effects of task demands, age, and skill level on memory and metamemory performance were examined for 62 average and 66 low-achieving learning-disabled children. Memory improved with age and skill level, and strategic metamemory revealed age and skill-level differences, but taxonomic metamemory revealed age differences in the average group only.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Classification, Comparative Testing