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Cassondra M. Eng; Rachel M. Flynn; Erik D. Thiessen; Anna V. Fisher – Grantee Submission, 2023
Exergames (video games that promote cognitive and physical activity simultaneously) benefit executive function (EF) in elderly populations. It has been suggested that exergames may induce larger effects than cognitive or exercise training alone, but few reviews have synthesized the causal factors of exergames on EF from experimental research with…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Exercise Physiology, Video Games, Game Based Learning
Razieh Fathi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation describes an experiment to investigate how learners with different levels of background in computer science learn core concepts of computer science, in particular, algorithms. We designed a study to focus on cognitive task analysis for eliciting the empirical mental elements of learning two graph algorithms. Cognitive workload…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Algorithms, Cognitive Development
Allison Atteberry; Daphna Bassok; Vivian C. Wong – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
This study is a randomized control trial of full- versus half-day pre-kindergarten in a school district near Denver, Colorado. Four-year-old children were randomly assigned an offer of half-day (four days/week) or full-day (five days/week) pre-k that increased class time by over 600 hours. The offer of full-day pre-k produced substantial, positive…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Readiness, School Schedules, Part Time Students
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Milner, Joseph; Coker, Connie Pullum; Buchanan, Christy; Newsome, Debbie; Milner, Jonathan; Allen, Rodney; Williams, Melissa – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2009
The North Carolina Governor's School offers a six-week residential summer program for four hundred academically talented rising juniors. This article measures the school's impact on these students in four fundamental areas: cognitive maturity, moral reasoning, personal learning style, and projections for the future. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Summer Programs, Accountability, Cognitive Development