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Dania, Aspasia; Kaltsonoudi, Kalliope; Ktistakis, Ioannis; Trampa, Konstantina; Boti, Niki; Pesce, Caterina – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Within team sports, players' ability to inhibit inappropriate behavioral responses and flexibly adapt to upcoming challenges relates significantly to their game performance. As such, there have been calls for cognitively fostering programs to form the basis of game teaching and coaching practice. However, only few studies have tested…
Descriptors: Games, Executive Function, Student Athletes, Program Effectiveness
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Destan, Nesrin; Roebers, Claudia M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2015
Children typically hold very optimistic views of their own skills but so far, only a few studies have investigated possible correlates of the ability to predict performance accurately. Therefore, this study examined the role of individual differences in performance estimation accuracy as a global metacognitive index for different monitoring and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Concept, Correlation, Prediction
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Yinger, Olivia Swedberg – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
As people age, they naturally experience sensory, perceptual, and cognitive changes. Many of these changes necessitate adaptations in designing programs for older adults. Choral singing is an activity that has many potential benefits for older adults, yet the rehearsal environment, presentation style, and content of material presented may need to…
Descriptors: Singing, Older Adults, Gerontology, Cognitive Ability
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Hussein, Furat; Reid, Norman – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2009
The difficulties of learning chemistry are related to the nature of chemistry itself and the methods by which chemistry is customarily taught. Frequently, the way of presenting chemistry does not take into account the psychology of the learner. With senior school pupils (over 1600 were involved) in the Emirates, a series of studies was conducted,…
Descriptors: Time Management, Chemistry, Short Term Memory, Information Processing
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Fink, A.; Neubauer, A. C. – Intelligence, 2005
In experimental time estimation research, it has consistently been found that the more a person is engaged in some kind of demanding cognitive activity within a given period of time, the more experienced duration of this time interval decreases. However, the role of individual differences has been largely ignored in this field of research. In a…
Descriptors: Research Design, Psychometrics, Memory, Cognitive Processes
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Naude, H.; Pretorius, E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
The effects of asthma medication on the cognitive and psychosocial functioning of primary school children with asthma are investigated. A questionnaire survey was conducted in a primary school in Stellenbosch (South Africa) with a population of six hundred and thirty-five students. Among these students, fifty-nine asthmatic children were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Management, Short Term Memory, Diseases