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Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Grantee Submission, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Munoz-Luna, Rosa; Jurado-Navas, Antonio – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The present paper aims to present a typology of classroom activities which may serve as group driving dynamics to improve student attention in class. Human attention skills may have been shortened now and traditional ways of imparting knowledge should be modified (Soslau, 2015). As a consequence, this implies multi-tasking behaviour as users…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Observation, Foreign Countries
Forness, Steven R; Kavale, Kenneth A. – Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1983
The article reviews issues in classification and remediation approaches for students with reading disabilities. The inclusive nature of the specific reading disability syndrome is noted as are difficulties surrounding classification attempts. Remedial implications are examined and guidelines offered regarding techniques for attention control,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Diagnosis