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Ginns, Paul; Muscat, Katherine; Naylor, Ryan – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objective: When students learn or solve problems, attentional resources are depleted; rest breaks may restore cognitive functioning in support of learning. Research framed by attention restoration theory holds that exposure to natural environments may be another means to restore attentional resources. The study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Intervals, Attention, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
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Agus, Mirian; Peró-Cebollero, Maribel; Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan; Portoghese, Igor; Mascia, Maria Lidia; Penna, Maria Pietronilla – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This paper reports some experiments on probabilistic reasoning designed to investigate the impact of the probabilistic problem presentation format (verbal-numerical and graphical-pictorial) on subjects' confidence in the correctness of their performance, other than the calibration between confidence and accuracy. To understand the potential effect…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Self Efficacy, Context Effect, Statistics
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Reed, Helen C.; Gemmink, Michelle; Broens-Paffen, Marije; Kirschner, Paul A.; Jolles, Jelle – Research in Mathematics Education, 2015
Developing fluency in arithmetic facts is instrumental to mathematics learning. This study compares the effects of two practice conditions on children's fluency in simple multiplication facts. Third and fourth graders in the Netherlands (N = 282) practised in either a conventional "recall" condition where they produced answers to…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Problem Solving, Recall (Psychology), Multiple Choice Tests