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Direct linkGinns, Paul; Muscat, Katherine; Naylor, Ryan – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objective: When students learn or solve problems, attentional resources are depleted; rest breaks may restore cognitive functioning in support of learning. Research framed by attention restoration theory holds that exposure to natural environments may be another means to restore attentional resources. The study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Intervals, Attention, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Download full textKim, Peter – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019
Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A) (Han, Bao, & Wiita, 2017b), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals' ultimate attainment as a function of dynamic transformation of endogenous and exogenous energies throughout the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Prediction
McConell, David A.; Chapman, LeeAnna; Czaijka, C. Douglas; Jones, Jason P.; Ryker, Katherine D.; Wiggen, Jennifer – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
The adoption of active learning instructional practices in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been shown to result in improvements in student learning, contribute to increased retention rates, and reduce the achievement gap among different student populations. Descriptions of active learning strategies…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, STEM Education
Peer reviewedMiller, April D.; Heward, William L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This article offers guidelines for using timed drills to achieve computational fluency in elementary students. It considers the acquisition and practice stages of learning, setting fluency aims and objectives, measuring fluency, research supporting time trials, how to do time trials, and 11 specific guidelines for conducting time trials. (DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Computation, Drills (Practice)
Meltzer, Lynn J.; And Others – 1984
The associations among cognitive automatization, abstract problem solving, and educational performance were studied using 127 fourth to ninth grade students. A number of measures of fast, automatic, and fluent performance (FAF measures) were used: writing the alphabet; reading from a word list; and mentally performing arithmetic operations. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Cognitive Measurement
