Daniel Hrubes,Robert S. Feldman
Daniel Hrubes
Accurately determining when students are having difficulty with cognitive tasks is important in educational settings. This study investigated whether college students emitted observable displays of cognitive difficulty when engaged in solit...
Yu-Min Ku,Richard C. Anderson
Yu-Min Ku
We investigated the effects of metalinguistic awareness and the internal structure of Chinese characters on children's incidental learning of word meanings while reading. The participants were 241 Taiwanese children from six fourth-grade cl...
Paul L. Ayres
Paul L. Ayres
The hypothesis that the intrinsic nature of algebraic bracket tasks causes an uneven distribution of cognitive load during computation was tested in three experiments with grades 8 and 9 students. In Experiment 1, students were given proble...
Michael P. Verdi,Jill Stamm,Janet T. Johnson et al.
Michael P. Verdi et al.
In two experiments undergraduate students were shown maps with features located either along an edge or within the interior of the map. Next, participants were asked to read a related text. Thereafter, they were asked to recall as much of t...
Carol K. K. Chan,John Sachs
Carol K. K. Chan
This study examined elementary school children's beliefs about learning and assessed the influences of such beliefs on their understanding of science texts. Eighty-three children, 46 from Grade 4 and 37 from Grade 6, were administered a que...
Robert F. Lorch Jr,Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch,Kristin Ritchey et al.
Robert F. Lorch Jr et al.
A summarization task was used to study whether headings influence readers' representations of the topic structure of a text. College students (Experiments 1-3) and sixth- and eighth-graders (Experiment 3) summarized a multiple topic text th...
Yvonne J. Vermetten,Hans G. Lodewijks,Jan D. Vermunt
Yvonne J. Vermetten
The aim of this study was to contribute to the development of an integrated theory on individual learning differences. To that end, theories on learning styles, personality, and achievement motivation were combined in an explanatory model (...
Participation in Advanced Mathematics: Do Expectation and Influence of Students, Peers, Teachers, and Parents Matter? [0.03%]
期望和影响对学生参与高等数学的作用：同学、教师和家长的作用何在？
Xin Ma
Xin Ma
Using six waves of data (Grades 7 through 12) from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), this study investigated the effects of expectation and influence of students, peers, teachers, and parents on participation in advanced math...
Kathleen E. Cox,John T. Guthrie
Kathleen E. Cox
The amount that students read for enjoyment and for school is a major contributor to students' reading achievement and knowledge of the world. Consequently, it is important to identify the factors that predict amount of reading. A literatur...
Predictors of Cheating among Early Adolescents: Academic and Social Motivations [0.03%]
早期青少年作弊的预测因素：学术和社会动机的影响
Tamera B. Murdock,Natalie M. Hale,Mary Jo Weber
Tamera B. Murdock
This study examined the relations between middle school students' self-reported cheating and several indicators of academic and social motivation. It was hypothesized that students' academic self-efficacy and personal and classroom goal ori...