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The Origins of Hypothesis Testing: Young Children's Developing Understanding of Information Seeking Compared to Effect Production
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Köksal, Özgün; Sodian, Beate – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Understanding that hypothesis testing is aimed at seeking information rather than producing desirable outcomes is indispensable for designing informative experiments. This study investigated the developmental course of information seeking compared to producing an effect in young children. In a between-subjects design, 4- to 6-year-olds (N = 109)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Seeking, Hypothesis Testing, Child Development
A Semantic Mismatch Effect on Serial Recall: Evidence for Interlexical Processing of Irrelevant Speech
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Röer, Jan Philipp; Bell, Raoul; Körner, Ulrike; Buchner, Axel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Short-term memory (STM) for serially presented visual items is disrupted by task-irrelevant, to-beignored speech. Five experiments investigated the extent to which irrelevant speech is processed semantically by contrasting the following two hypotheses: (1) semantic processing of irrelevant speech is limited and does not interfere with serial STM…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recall (Psychology), Short Term Memory, Sentence Structure
The Time on Task Effect in Reading and Problem Solving Is Moderated by Task Difficulty and Skill: Insights from a Computer-Based Large-Scale Assessment
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Goldhammer, Frank; Naumann, Johannes; Stelter, Annette; Tóth, Krisztina; Rölke, Heiko; Klieme, Eckhard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Computer-based assessment can provide new insights into behavioral processes of task completion that cannot be uncovered by paper-based instruments. Time presents a major characteristic of the task completion process. Psychologically, time on task has 2 different interpretations, suggesting opposing associations with task outcome: Spending more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time on Task, Reading, Problem Solving
Prompted Journal Writing Supports Preservice History Teachers in Drawing on Multiple Knowledge Domains for Designing Learning Tasks
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Wäschle, Kristin; Lehmann, Thomas; Brauch, Nicola; Nückles, Matthias – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Becoming a history teacher requires the integration of pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and content knowledge. Because the integration of knowledge from different disciplines is a complex task, we investigated prompted learning journals as a method to support teacher students' knowledge integration. Fifty-two preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, History Instruction, Journal Writing, Prompting
Combining Self-Assessments and Achievement Tests in Information Literacy Assessment: Empirical Results and Recommendations for Practice
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Rosman, Tom; Mayer, Anne-Kathrin; Krampen, Günter – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
This article examines the significance of information literacy self-assessments in higher education with a special focus on situational conditions increasing their explanatory power. First, it was hypothesised that self-assessments of information literacy correlate higher with factual information literacy if measured after the administration of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Eye Tracking Indicators of Reading Approaches in Text-Picture Comprehension
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Zhao, Fang; Schnotz, Wolfgang; Wagner, Inga; Gaschler, Robert – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
Despite numerous studies on reading and multimedia comprehension, the usage of text and picture with different reading strategies has rarely become a focus of research. The current study aims to explore whether the usage of text differs from the usage of picture when readers follow different strategies of knowledge acquisition. In a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Illustrations
Infant Contingency Learning in Different Cultural Contexts
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Graf, Frauke; Lamm, Bettina; Goertz, Claudia; Kolling, Thorsten; Freitag, Claudia; Spangler, Sibylle; Fassbender, Ina; Teubert, Manuel; Vierhaus, Marc; Keller, Heidi; Lohaus, Arnold; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Knopf, Monika – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Three-month-old Cameroonian Nso farmer and German middle-class infants were compared regarding learning and retention in a computerized mobile task. Infants achieving a preset learning criterion during reinforcement were tested for immediate and long-term retention measured in terms of an increased response rate after reinforcement and after a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Middle Class, Learning Processes