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Costanza Ruffini; Eleonora Pizzigallo; Chiara Pecini; Laura Bertolo; Barbara Carretti – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
It is acknowledged the need for interventions to improve reading comprehension and its cognitive underpinnings, such as executive functions. The present study implemented a computerized cognitive training for enhancing reading comprehension in primary school children through EF activities embedded in text comprehension exercises. 263 third and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Computer Assisted Instruction, Training, Reading Instruction
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Daniel Ginting; Ross M. Woods; Yusawinur Barella; Liem Satya Limanta; Ahmad Madkur; Heng Ee How – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the effects of Storytelling Narrated Videos (SNV) on students' knowledge retention and transferability. A total of 56 students from a university in Indonesia were randomly assigned to a quasi-experimental research design exposed to SNV and to Lecture Narrated Videos (LNV). Two videos were created to deliver content…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Retention (Psychology), Knowledge Level
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Hitchcock, Caitlin; Westwell, Martin S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: We explored whether school-based Cogmed Working Memory Training (CWMT) may optimise both academic and psychological outcomes at school. Training of executive control skills may form a novel approach to enhancing processes that predict academic achievement, such as task-related attention, and thereby academic performance, but also has…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Short Term Memory, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students