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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick; Hopkins, Emily J. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
How do young children decide which events can happen within fictional stories (extension) and learn new information from these stories (export)? In two studies, we investigate these two issues as well as the influence of story genre (realistic or fantastical) on these processes. Preschoolers (N = 192) heard either a realistic or fantastical story…
Descriptors: Fiction, Literary Genres, Fantasy, Preschool Children
Grossnickle Peterson, Emily; Alexander, Patricia A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
Academic tasks frequently require students to effectively process multiple sources across print and digital mediums. Yet, studies of multiple source use have almost exclusively confined examinations to a single medium. In the present study, undergraduate students (n = 50) wore a head-mounted video camera while developing a PowerPoint presentation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Media Selection, Information Sources, Printed Materials
Greenberg, Ethan; Culver, Diane M. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2020
Parkour is a relatively new sport, and so there has not yet been much published research relating to parkour, or more specifically, parkour coaching. There is a large body of knowledge relating to how sport coaches learn to coach, but such research has examined regulated sports; that is, sports with national governing bodies. In North America,…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Coaching (Performance), Prior Learning
Yildirim, Kasim; Cetinkaya, Fatih Cetin; Ates, Seyit; Kaya, Dudu; Rasinski, Timothy – Education Sciences, 2020
This correlational study aimed to explore the relations of background knowledge, automaticity (rate), prosody, and strategy use with reading comprehension (KAPS model of reading comprehension) in the written Turkish language context with 207 fourth grade students. Successful comprehension requires readers to make meaning out of what they read. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Turkish, Reading Comprehension
Brod, Garvin; Breitwieser, Jasmin; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Bunge, Silvia A. – Developmental Science, 2020
This study investigated whether prompting children to generate predictions about an outcome facilitates activation of prior knowledge and improves belief revision. 51 children aged 9-12 were tested on two experimental tasks in which generating a prediction was compared to closely matched control conditions, as well as on a test of executive…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Preadolescents, Executive Function, Cognitive Ability
Tarchi, Christian; Mason, Lucia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to test the relationships between critical thinking, prior topic knowledge and beliefs, and multiple-document comprehension through a path analysis approach. The participants were 281 Italian undergraduate students. Participants first completed a rational-experiential inventory, a critical thinking skills test, a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Beliefs
Florit, Elena; Cain, Kate; Mason, Lucia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Children's comprehension of single texts relies on both foundational and higher-level skills. These are also assumed to support multiple-document comprehension, but their relative importance has not been examined, to date. Multiple-document comprehension additionally requires the identification and use of information about each…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Children, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Ortlieb, Evan; Cheek, Earl H., Jr. – Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation, 2020
Practical implications: Designing effective literacy practices for today's adolescents requires following a basic set of guidelines that considers such factors as student's backgrounds, experiences, and prior knowledge. These factors are particularly important in determining where to begin instruction with each student, and how to proceed. [For…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, Educational History, Literacy Education
Barth, Erling; Keute, Anna Lena; Schøne, Pål; von Simson, Kristine; Steffensen, Kjartan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Do skills protect against exclusion in adult ages, and how important are the skills acquired before the age of 16 years versus those acquired later on? We match the scores on numeracy and literacy skills from the 2011 PIAAC for young adults backwards to grade point average (GPA) data from compulsory school education, measured at the age of 16…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Prior Learning, Numeracy, Literacy
Çetin, Ömer F.; Akkusçi, Himmet – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This research aims to explore the secondary school sixth and seventh graders' length measuring estimation skills developing activities related to the daily life objects. The study is in a qualitative multiple case study model. The universe of the research consisted of the sixth and seventh graders. The sample of the research consisted of 85…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Measurement
Gyll, Sean P.; Hayes, Heather – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2021
Competency-based institutions eager to improve student outcomes would be wise to consider research-based measures, such as a course planning and learning tool (CPLT), as one step in the student life cycle. Recent research has indicated which assessment practices tend to be most successful in an online competency-based environment while hinting at…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Individual Differences, Electronic Learning, Student Evaluation
Kaliampos, George; Ravanis, Konstantinos; Vavougios, Denis – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The aim of the present study is to explore on the alternative conceptions of impetus theory and projectile motion of students with high functioning autism spectrum disorders and compare them with those of typical development. For this purpose, an experimental investigation was conducted with 19 students with high-functioning autism (age range:…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Motion
Villalba-García, Ernesto – European Journal of Education, 2021
Validation of non-formal and informal learning has been gaining political momentum in Europe within the implementation of lifelong learning policies since the early 2000s. Policy documents claim a variety of education, socio-political and economic benefits from the implementation of validation, making validation a "hero" for lifelong…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, Program Validation
Litster, Kristy; Lommatsch, Christina W.; Novak, Joshua R.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Harmon, M. Jill; Roxburgh, Allison L.; Bullock, Emma P. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
This study explored associations among children's prior attitudes, prior mathematics knowledge, and frequency of digital game use, with children's perceptions of game affordances, and transfer to out-of-game performance when interacting with digital math games, with respect to gender. Participants were 187 children (ages 8-12). An SEM mediation…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Pretests Posttests, Computer Games, Student Attitudes
Lakhal, Sawsen; Khechine, Hager – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The aim of this study was to verify if technological factors have an influence on persistence in online courses. A theoretical model encompassing seven variables was tested, some of them borrowed from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Online Courses, Higher Education, Gender Differences