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How Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implantation Affect Verbal Working Memory: Evidence from Adolescents
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Susan Nittrouer – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Verbal working memory is poorer for children with hearing loss than for peers with normal hearing (NH), even with cochlear implantation and early intervention. Poor verbal working memory can affect academic performance, especially in higher grades, making this deficit a significant problem. This study examined the stability of verbal…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Short Term Memory, Auditory Perception
The Predictive Power of Working Memory on Chinese Middle School Students' English Reading Comprehension
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Chang, Xin; Wang, Pei; Cai, Meng-meng; Wang, Mingzhu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
The present research set out to investigate the effect of working memory on English reading comprehension of Chinese middle school students. To do so, we recruited 150 Chinese students at grade 8 and conducted two studies. Study 1 examined the predictive power of working memory on the performance of English reading comprehension, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Linguistic but Not Cognitive Weaknesses in Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Poor Comprehenders
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Deng, Qinli; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
This study examined the reading comprehension profiles, and the related linguistic and cognitive skills, of 146 Chinese students in Grades 3-9 who are deaf or hard of hearing (d/Dhh). Employing a rigorous regression approach, the current study identified 19 unexpected poor comprehenders, 24 expected average comprehenders, and 16 unexpected good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Ability, Language Skills
A Naturalistic Study of Executive Function and Mathematical Problem-Solving
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Kotsopoulos, Donna; Lee, Joanne – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2012
Our goal in this research was to understand the specific challenges middle-school students face when engaging in mathematical problem-solving by using executive function (i.e., shifting, updating, and inhibiting) of working memory as a functional construct for the analysis. Using modified talk-aloud protocols, real-time naturalistic analysis of…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Problem Solving, Mathematics
Developmental and Individual Differences in Understanding of Fractions
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Siegler, Robert S.; Pyke, Aryn A. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
We examined developmental and individual differences in 6th and 8th graders' fraction arithmetic and overall mathematics achievement and related them to differences in understanding of fraction magnitudes, whole number division, executive functioning, and metacognitive judgments within a cross-sectional design. Results indicated that the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
Factors Associated with Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension for Typically-Developing Students and for a Pilot Sample of Students Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Weissinger, Kristen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated some of the underlying factors that may relate to and predict the reading comprehension of children in fourth through eighth grade (N = 47). A subset of these children previously had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; n = 10); the remainder are classified as typically-developing (n = 37). The participants…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6