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Direct linkSeli, Paul; Cheyne, James Allan; Xu, Mengran; Purdon, Christine; Smilek, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Researchers of mind wandering frequently assume that (a) participants are motivated to do well on the tasks they are given, and (b) task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) that occur during task performance reflect unintentional, unwanted thoughts that occur despite participants' best intentions to maintain task-focus. Given the relatively boring and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Control, Intention, Task Analysis
Clinton, Virginia – Reading Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between reading motivation and inference generation while reading. Undergraduate participants (N = 69) read two science articles while thinking aloud, completed a standardized reading comprehension assessment, and self reported their habitual reading motivation. Findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Motivation, Inferences, Standards
Lovett, Benjamin J.; Lewandowski, Lawrence J.; Potts, Heather E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Students often feel time pressure when taking tests, and students with disabilities are sometimes given extended time testing accommodations, but little research has been done on the factors that affect students' test-taking speed. In the present study, 253 students at two colleges completed measures of processing speed, reading fluency, and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Test Wiseness, Reading Skills, Standardized Tests
Inoue, Noriyuki – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
In a task choice situation, why do some students spontaneously choose challenging tasks while others do not? In the study, 114 undergraduate students were first asked of their perceived competence and interest in solving number puzzles at both individual and situational levels, and then asked to choose one puzzle from four difficulty levels. They…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Puzzles, Mathematics Education, Multiple Regression Analysis
