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Gaskill, Pamela J.; Murphy, P. Karen – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
This study investigated the mediating effects of learning a memory strategy on second-graders' performance of a memory task and their self-efficacy for the task. Specifically, second-graders were taught a strategy for organizing words into categories to increase their ability to remember lists of words. Their predictions of how many words they…
Descriptors: Memory, Grade 2, Self Efficacy, Cognitive Ability

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