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Hugo G. Lapierre; Patrick Charland; Pierre-Majorique Léger – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Current programming learning research often compares novices and experienced programmers, leaving early learning stages and emotional and cognitive states under-explored. Objective: Our study investigates relationships between cognitive and emotional states and learning performance in early stage programming learners with…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Gardner, Robert C.; Desrochers, Alain M. – 1980
This paper reviews the research on second language acquisition and bilingualism conducted in Canada over the past decade (1970-79). The material on second language acquisition is presented under the followinq headings: approaches to second language instruction, individual differences and second language acquisition, and effects of second language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Individual Differences
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Ishiyama, F. Ishu – Adolescence, 1984
Used self-ratings to compare 96 shy and nonshy tenth-grade students. The shy group reported significantly more negative self-ratings on loneliness, interference of shyness with academic success and friendships, shyness around the opposite sex, and belief in the noticeability of shyness. There were no significant group differences in self-liking.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
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Cohen, Ronald L.; Gowen, Anne – Intelligence, 1978
Two experiments examined whether correlations between IQ and probed serial running memory depend on IQ-related individual differences in the retention of order information in short-term memory. Children's IQ correlated with memory, regardless of whether instructions emphasized serial or free recall; and with recent item but not recent order…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
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Masson, Michael E. J.; Miller, Jo Ann – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
This study replicated Daneman and Carpenter's finding that the reading span test, as a measure of working memory storage and process functions, is predictive of performance on standard reading comprehension tests. It showed that reading span is related to the ability to draw inferences from, integrate, and encode text information. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Rancourt, Richard; Dionne, Jean-Paul – 1981
Psycho-epistemology provides a framework for this study on interrelationships among teachers, subject matter, and learners. Chapter 1 presents the polemics that lead to the problem, including sections on educational divergence, the noncumulative nature of knowledge in education, the divergence of opinion regarding the "best" teaching and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation