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Chen, Edward H.; Bailey, Drew H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
We performed a meta-analysis of dual-task experiments to assess the robustness of the effects of conducting working memory secondary tasks on arithmetic performance. Four hundred effect sizes from 21 studies from 1,049 participants were analyzed across a variety of specifications. Results revealed that increases in working memory load resulted in…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Task Analysis
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Coquin-Viennot, Daniele; Moreau, Stephanie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Understanding and solving problems involves different levels of representation. On the one hand, there are logico-mathematical representations, or problem models (PMs), which contain information such as "the size of the flock changed from 31 sheep to 42" while, on the other hand, there are more qualitative representations, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students