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Eden, Sigal; Shamir, Adina; Fershtman, Maayan – Educational Media International, 2011
The current study examined the effect of using laptops on the spelling skills of students with learning disabilities (LD). It was conducted as part of the Israeli "Katom" (A Computer for Every Class, Student, and Teacher) Program. Participants included 93 Hebrew-speaking students with LD aged 13-16, who attend 10 special education…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Test Results, Spelling
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Kramarski, Bracha; Zoldan, Sarit – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors examined effects of 3 metacognitive approaches and 1 control group on mathematical reasoning, conceptual errors, and metacognitive knowledge. The metacognitive approaches were (a) diagnosing errors (DIA), (b) improvement via self-questioning (IMP), and (c) a combined approach (DIA+IMP). Controls (CONT) received no metacognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
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Forster, Jens; Liberman, Nira; Shapira, Oren – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Six experiments examined whether novelty versus familiarity influences global versus local processing styles. Novelty and familiarity were manipulated by either framing a task as new versus familiar or by asking participants to reflect upon novel versus familiar events prior to the task (i.e., procedural priming). In Experiments 1-3, global…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Cognitive Processes