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de Boer, Hester; Donker, Anouk S.; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Review of Educational Research, 2014
This meta-analysis examined the influence of attributes related to the implementation of learning strategy instruction interventions on students' academic performance, and also examined how the attributes related to the method of testing the intervention effects affected the actual effects measured. Using metaregression, we analyzed the…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies
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Sitzmann, Traci; Johnson, Stefanie K. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2012
Planning plays an instrumental role in prominent self-regulation theories (e.g., action regulation, control, goal setting), yet as a scientific community we know little about how people carry out their learning plans. Using an experimental field study, we implemented a repeated-measures intervention requiring trainees to create a plan for when,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Time on Task, Program Effectiveness, Goal Orientation
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Abi-El-Mona, Issam; Adb-El-Khalick, Fouad – School Science and Mathematics, 2008
This study assessed the influence of using mind maps as a learning tool on eighth graders' science achievement, whether such influence was mediated by students' prior scholastic achievement, and the relationship between students' mind maps and their conceptual understandings. Sixty-two students enrolled in four intact sections of a grade 8 science…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Science Achievement, Multiple Choice Tests, Concept Mapping
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Karnes, Merle B.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1989
Ten mildly handicapped preschool children were taught to use problem-solving strategies to complete fine motor tasks. Qualitative and quantitative data indicated that the intervention had a positive impact on the task persistence of some children and that some children became more systematic in their approach to solving tasks. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Strategies, Mild Disabilities, Persistence
Pate-Clevenger, Rebecca; Dusing, Jennifer; Houck, Phyllis; Zuber, John – Online Submission, 2008
This Action Research Project Report was conducted at one elementary school and two different high schools from August 20, 2007 to December 14, 2007. The purpose of this research was to decrease student off-task behavior in the classroom. There were four teacher researchers and 94 students at the beginning of the research, but during the action…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Learning Activities, Social Behavior
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Barrett, Tim – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2005
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of a cooperative learning strategy in physical education on academic learning time, the percentage of correct trials, the total number of trials, and the number of correct trials. A cooperative learning strategy, PACER (Performer and Coach Earn Rewards), was implemented in a sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Rewards, Physical Education, Learning Strategies