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Individual Differences in the Desirable Difficulty Effect during Lexical Acquisition
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Eskenazi, Michael A.; Nix, Bailey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Reading in difficult or novel fonts results in slower and less efficient reading (Slattery & Rayner, 2010); however, these fonts may also lead to better learning and memory (Diemand-Yauman, Oppenheimer, & Vaughan, 2011). This effect is consistent with a desirable difficulty effect such that more effort during encoding results in better…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Difficulty Level, Word Frequency, Layout (Publications)
The Influence of Personalization of Online Texts on Elementary School Students' Reading Comprehension and Attitudes toward Reading
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Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
The purpose of this research was to examine the role of personalized and non-personalized online texts on elementary school fifth grade students' comprehension and their attitudes toward reading. Participants were 47 fifth-grade students from a rural elementary school in north Florida. The subjects were randomly assigned into two (personalized…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Student Attitudes
Using Computer Assisted Instruction To Teach Grammar through Magazine Writing to Students in Grades Two and Three.
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Yon, Nancy K. – 1995
This practicum investigated whether using whole language, cooperative learning, CAI, and an authentic audience to create a magazine would help second and third grade students to learn punctuation skills. The practicum was implemented at a private, south Florida summer computer camp to two different target groups of eight elementary students. Both…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Grade 2
Commercial Art. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This document contains a vocational program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for secondary and postsecondary commercial art. The guide contains the following sections: occupational description; program content (curriculum framework and student performance standards); program implementation (student admission criteria,…
Descriptors: Commercial Art, Curriculum Design, Design, Employment Potential
Basic Commercial Art. Florida Vocational Program Guide.
University of South Florida, Tampa. Dept. of Adult and Vocational Education. – 1988
This document includes a vocational program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for secondary and postsecondary basic commercial art programs. The guide contains the following sections: occupational description; program content (curriculum framework and student performance standards); program implementation (student admission…
Descriptors: Art Education, Commercial Art, Curriculum Design, Design