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Merel Bakker; Joke Torbeyns; Lieven Verschaffel; Bert De Smedt – Child Development, 2024
This 5-year longitudinal study examined whether high mathematics achievers in primary school had cognitive advantages before entering formal education. High mathematics achievement was defined as performing above Pc 90 in Grades 1 and 3. The predominantly White sample (M[subscript age] in preschool: 64 months) included 31 high achievers (12 girls)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Children, Mathematics Achievement, High Achievement
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Bo Yang – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2024
In online learning at scale, wherein instructional videos play a central role, interactive tools are often integrated to counteract passive consumption. For example, the forum or discussion board is widely used, and an emerging functionality, danmaku, which enables messages to be synchronized with video playback, has also been utilized recently.…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Discussion Groups, Cooperative Learning, Video Technology
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Cassidy L. Wilkes; Madelyn M. Gamble; Guizella A. Rocabado – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Chemistry is often daunting for college students, contributing to high attrition rates in STEM majors. This study explored students' perceptions of the challenges in studying chemistry, including task effort and emotional costs. We examined how these perceptions, along with goal approaches, impact academic performance and retention in general…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Dorien Ceuleers; Sofie Degeest; Freya Swinnen; Nele Baudonck; Katrien Kestens; Ingeborg Dhooge; Hannah Keppler – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to assess dual-task interference (i.e., changes between the dual-task and baseline condition) in a listening effort dual-task paradigm in normal-hearing (NH) adults, hearing aid (HA) users, and cochlear implant (CI) users. Method: Three groups of 31 participants were included: (a) NH adults, (b) HA…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Adults
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Gisela Canelhas; Paulo Nuno Vicente – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Editing techniques enable audiovisual producers to merge viewpoints of a single subject and condense time and space between scenes, leading to more engaging videos. However, for content aimed at young children, these techniques may compromise intelligibility if not correctly understood, thus posing a risk to the overall learning experience. This…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Educational Media, Preschool Children, Audiovisual Aids
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Irina A. Lokhtina; Pierre Faller – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: Fast-changing global environment, hybrid and virtual work, today's workplace is confronted to an unprecedented level of complexity. This conceptual paper aims to explore ways to re-think and adapt informal workplace learning to those recent changes and important dimensions to consider when designing successful learning strategies in the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Blended Learning, Virtual Classrooms
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Gavin Bui; Yizhou Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Focusing on the relationship between linguistic, cognitive, socioemotional factors in writing English for academic purposes (EAP), this study investigated whether topic familiarity as an important cognitive factor of task complexity influences different levels of emotionality and linguistic complexity in EAP writing and whether there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Writing Instruction
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Jiali Wang; Young-Suk Grace Kim; Minkyung Cho – Grantee Submission, 2024
Background: We examined linguistic features in fourth graders' narrative and opinion writing and their relations to writing quality. We analysed narrative and opinion essays in terms of lexical sophistication and diversity as well as syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and morphological complexity. Methods: Data were from English-speaking…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Writing (Composition), Narration, Opinions
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Soyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Despite increased research interest in improving students' scientific inquiry abilities, how to conduct scientific inquiry using science textbooks that are easily accessible to primary school students remains understudied. This study developed and verified an inquiry activity model (IAM) to improve the performance of primary school students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Ju Zhan; Qiyu Sun; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for language learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. English essays written by 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to writing complexity,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing (Composition), Difficulty Level, Vocabulary
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Adrian Urbano; Michael Mortimer; Ben Horan; Hans Stefan; Kaja Antlej – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The ability to measure cognitive load in the workplace provides several opportunities to improve workplace learning. In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has seen an increase in use for training and learning applications due to improvements in technology and reduced costs. This study aims to focus on the use of simulation task load index…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Computer Simulation, Evaluation Methods
Elizabeth Patricia McLain – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As student veterans enter higher education after service, there is a need for more knowledge about their transitional experiences. The issues facing this group of students have an impact, not only on the student, but also faculty, administrators, and student peers. This study focused on articulating these transition experiences utilizing…
Descriptors: Veterans, Nontraditional Students, Transitional Programs, Educational Experience
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Reza Hemmati; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Hadighe Ebrahimi – Learning Environments Research, 2024
The college classroom is the main setting of higher education institutions, wherein students get unique opportunities to learn and form new relationships and experiences. This study aimed to provide a qualitative description of female students' experiences of college classrooms. The participants were 28 undergraduate female students who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges
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Karen Zwanch; Heather Carlile Carter; Jianna Davenport – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
This case study investigated the relationship between five undergraduate interior design students' reasoning with numerical units and reasoning about length and area. The multiplicative concepts frame participants' coordination of numerical units. Differences were found between participants' reasoning about length and area, based on their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interior Design, Correlation, Mathematics Skills
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Jiali Wang; Young-Suk Grace Kim; Minkyung Cho – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: We examined linguistic features in fourth graders' narrative and opinion writing and their relations to writing quality. We analysed narrative and opinion essays in terms of lexical sophistication and diversity as well as syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and morphological complexity. Methods: Data were from English-speaking…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Writing (Composition), Narration, Opinions
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