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Atkinson, Amy L.; Waterman, Amanda H.; Allen, Richard J. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Recent research found no evidence that children aged 7-10 years are able to direct their attention to more valuable information in working memory. The current experiments examined whether children demonstrate this ability when the reward system used to motivate participants is engaging and age-appropriate. This was explored across different memory…
Descriptors: Children, Short Term Memory, Learning Motivation, Cognitive Processes
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Oliver, Rhonda; Bogachenko, Tatiana – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
A great deal of research has focused on tasks, particularly for adult second language learners. In this paper we provide an account of studies that have investigated children and tasks -- an age group that have received far less attention. We consider, in particular, the impact of tasks on children's language learning, how their design features…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis
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Gilmore, Linda; Cuskelly, Monica; Browning, Melissa – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
The main purpose of the current study was to provide empirical evidence to support or refute assumptions of phenotypic deficits in motivation for children with Down syndrome (DS). Children with moderate intellectual disability (MID) associated with etiologies other than DS were recruited in an extension of a previous study that involved children…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Genetic Disorders, Mastery Learning, Learning Motivation
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Gilat, Talya; Amit, Miriam – PNA, 2014
The aim of this paper is to show how engaging students in real-life mathematical situations can stimulate their mathematical creative thinking. We analyzed the mathematical modeling of two girls, aged 10 and 13 years, as they worked on an authentic task involving the selection of a track team. The girls displayed several modeling cycles that…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Females