Learning and Instruction
Volume 16, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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Rapid cognitive assessment of learners' knowledge structures
Slava Kalyuga
Traditional assessment methods are not always suitable for diagnosing learners' knowledge structures at different levels of their expertise. This paper describes an alternative schema-based rapid... More
pp. 1-11
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Metacognitive macroevaluations in mathematical problem solving
Annemie Desoete & Herbert Roeyers
This paper focuses on the role of evaluation in mathematics in 749 elementary school children. The macroevaluative skills and calibration scores of high versus low mathematical problem solvers were... More
pp. 12-25
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Ethnic and gender differences in mathematics achievement and in dispositions towards the study of mathematics
Menucha Birenbaum & Fadia Nasser
The study examined the effects of gender and ethnicity on mathematics achievement on a national test and on dispositions (attitudes, perceived parental expectations, effort, and help) towards the... More
pp. 26-40
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The impact of invented spelling on phonemic awareness
Margarida Alves Martins & Cristina Silva
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a training programme, designed to make preschool-age children's invented spelling evolve, on their phonemic awareness. The participants were ... More
pp. 41-56
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Using self-regulation as a framework for implementing strategy instruction to foster reading comprehension
Elmar Souvignier & Judith Mokhlesgerami
Research on the implementation of reading strategies suggests that self-regulated learning might be a powerful framework to optimize effects on reading comprehension. Models of self-regulation... More
pp. 57-71
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The mind is not a black box: Children's ideas about the writing process
Nora Scheuer, Montserrat de la Cruz, Juan Ignacio Pozo, María Faustina Huarte & Graciela Sola
We studied children's conceptions of the writing process while the complex cognitive activity of writing is carried out through a pictorial representation of the writing process. Sixty children... More
pp. 72-85