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Direct linkKyttala, Minna; Lehto, Juhani E. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
Passive and active visuospatial working memory (VSWM) were investigated in relation to maths performance. The mental rotation task was employed as a measure of active VSWM whereas passive VSWM was investigated using a modified Corsi Blocks task and a matrix pattern task. The Raven Progressive Matrices Test measured fluid intelligence. A total of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Mental Computation, Memory, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Kyttala, Minna – Educational Psychology, 2008
The first purpose of this study was to investigate whether the visuospatial working memory (VSWM) skills of 15-16-year-old pupils with difficulties in mathematics differ from those of their normally achieving peers. The goal was to broaden the view of the complex system of VSWM. A set of passive and active VSWM tasks was used. The study's second…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Memory
Sinelnikov, Oleg; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2008
Given Russian students' general lack of group work and opportunities to develop student responsibility in their prior schooling experiences, the purpose of this study was to examine how a group of Russian high school students responds to novel demands of participation in a sport education season. Forty-two students from two ninth-grade physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Student Journals, Student Responsibility
Graham, Jedda; Tisher, Ruth; Ainley, Mary; Kennedy, Gregor – Educational Psychology, 2008
This study addresses concerns about boys' underperformance on literacy tasks compared to girls, by investigating male and females students' responses to narrative texts. Participants were 142 Grade 9 and 10 students. Achievement orientations, including goals, self-efficacy, and self-handicapping, were measured and approach and avoidance factors…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Low Achievement
Download full textHerman, Jan; Ilucova, Lucia; Kremsova, Veronika; Pribyl, Jiri; Ruppeldtova, Janka; Simpson, Adrian; Stehlikova, Nada; Sulista, Marek; Ulrychova, Michaela – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
Within the large range of potential theoretical perspectives on fractions, this paper considers one particular interpretation: fractions' duality as process and object. By considering the number-fractionbar-number composite symbol as simultaneously representing division and rational, some process-object theories imply that fraction-as-process and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Mady, Callie – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2007
Recently arrived English as a second language (ESL) students were compared to their unilingual and multilingual Canadian-born peers on measures of French proficiency. All of the participants were enrolled in secondary core French (CF)--the ESL students were studying introductory French, whereas the Canadian-born students were in Grade 9 CF, their…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Speech Communication, Listening Comprehension Tests, Multilingualism
