SUB‐CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ON SELECTED COGNITIVE TASKSBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 51 Số 1 - Trang 105-108 - 1981
Geoffrey N. Molloy
Summary. The present study investigated some relationships between age, socio‐economic status (SES), and cognitive task performance among 120 children from Grades 1 and 4. A battery of tasks differing in transformational requirements and ostensibly in cultural loading was administered to all children. Analyses of results indicate that low SES chil...... hiện toàn bộ
Test selection, adaptation, and evaluation: A systematic approach to assess nutritional influences on child development in developing countriesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 80 Số 1 - Trang 31-53 - 2010
Elizabeth L. Prado, Sri Hartini, Atik Rahmawati, Elfa. Ismayani, Asri Hidayati, Nurul Hikmah, Husni Muadz, Mandri Apriatni, Michael T. Ullman, Anuraj H. Shankar, Katie Alcock
BackgroundEvaluating the impact of nutrition interventions on developmental outcomes in developing countries can be challenging since most assessment tests have been produced in and for developed country settings. Such tests may not be valid measures of children's abilities when used in a new context.Aims... hiện toàn bộ
The interplay between motivation, self‐efficacy, and approaches to studyingBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 80 Số 2 - Trang 283-305 - 2010
Mercè Prat‐Sala, Paul Redford
BackgroundThe strategies students adopt in their study are influenced by a number of social‐cognitive factors and impact upon their academic performance.AimsThe present study examined the interrelationships between motivation orientation (intrinsic and extrinsic), self‐efficacy (in reading aca...... hiện toàn bộ
The management of cognitive load during complex cognitive skill acquisition by means of computer‐simulated problem solvingBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 75 Số 1 - Trang 71-85 - 2005
Liesbeth Kester, Paul A. Kirschner, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
This study compared the effects of two information presentation formats on learning to solve problems in electrical circuits. In one condition, the split‐source format, information relating to procedural aspects of the functioning of an electrical circuit was not integrated in a circuit diagram, while information in the integrated format condition was integrated in the circuit diagram. It ...... hiện toàn bộ
The contribution of visual search strategies to the development of pedestrian skills by 4‐11 year‐old childrenBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 70 Số 4 - Trang 539-557 - 2000
David Whitebread, Kris Neilson
Background. Young children in the 5‐9 age range are particularly vulnerable to road accidents as pedestrians and previous research has identified a range of motivational and cognitive skill factors which may play a part in this. Aims. The present study aimed to examine the extent to which the development of pedestrian skills in young children was related to individual differences in visual...... hiện toàn bộ
STRUCTURAL AND ORGANISATIONAL FEATURES OF SENSORIMOTOR INTELLIGENCE AMONG RETARDED INFANTS AND TODDLERSBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 51 Số 2 - Trang 133-143 - 1981
Carl J. Dunst, William R. Brassell, Regina M. Rheingrover
Summary. According to Piaget, cognitive development is characterised by the simultaneous and concurrent emergence of constructs that require the same underlying intellectual processes. Such syncronies in development—structure d'ensemble in Piaget's terms—are a fundamental feature of his stage theory. In the present study...... hiện toàn bộ
Reading and listening comprehension and their relation to inattention and hyperactivityBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 84 Số 1 - Trang 108-124 - 2014
Kate Cain, Simon Bignell
BackgroundChildren with diagnoses of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently have reading problems. To date, it is not clear whether poor reading is associated with both inattention and hyperactivity and also whether poor reading comprehension is the result of poor word readi...... hiện toàn bộ
RELATING APPROACHES TO STUDY AND QUALITY OF LEARNING OUTCOMES AT THE COURSE LEVELBritish Journal of Educational Psychology - Tập 61 Số 3 - Trang 265-275 - 1991
Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
Summary. Research into qualitative differences in students' approaches to study, the quality of learning outcomes, and the relations between them has, in the main, been conducted on learning resulting from involvement in small academic tasks such as reading an academic article. This study, based on a sample of 122 first year university nursing stu...... hiện toàn bộ