NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wakefield, Elizabeth M.; Foley, Alana E.; Ping, Raedy; Villarreal, Julia N.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Past research has shown that children's mental rotation skills are malleable and can be improved through action experience--physically rotating objects--or gesture experience--showing how objects could rotate (e.g., Frick, Ferrara, & Newcombe, 2013; Goldin-Meadow et al., 2012; Levine, Goldin-Meadow, Carlson, & Hemani-Lopez, 2018). These…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Nonverbal Communication, Motion
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tomakin, Ercan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The brain asymmetry and contralateral control of the body by the left and right brain hemispheres is known (Crystal, 1997; Fromkin, 1998). It is widely accepted that language lateralization, damage to the left brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and results show that the left brain is regarded as the language…
Descriptors: Handedness, Native Language, Gender Differences, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Akar, Sacide Guzin Mazman; Altun, Arif – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate and conceptualize the ranks of importance of social cognitive variables on university students' computer programming performances. Spatial ability, working memory, self-efficacy, gender, prior knowledge and the universities students attend were taken as variables to be analyzed. The study has been…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Programming, Self Efficacy
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection