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Galla, Brian M.; Tsukayama, Eli; Park, Daeun; Yu, Alisa; Duckworth, Angela L. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Little is known about the naturalistic development of mindfulness in adolescence and how it relates to changes in emotional well-being. The current longitudinal study examined the development of one dimension of mindfulness, nonreactivity to difficult inner experience (or in more colloquial terms, being able to notice, but "take a step…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Well Being, Emotional Development, Middle School Students
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Beal, Carole R.; Stevens, Ronald H. – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2011
The goal of the study was to improve high school students' problem solving performance as they worked with IMMEX, an online chemistry problem solving simulation. The intervention included brief text messages added to the simulation to encourage students to reflect on their problem solving strategies and to adopt more effective problem solving…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
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Ross, Pamela; Gibson, Sharan A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
This study analyzed and compared the characteristics of expert and less expert teachers' noticing ability during observation of literacy instruction, and builds a conceptual framework for expert noticing during such teaching. Expert participants (n = 7) were defined as university faculty in reading with intensive and long-term experience in…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Reading Instruction, Literacy
Beal, Carole R.; Stevens, Ronald H. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Recent assessments indicate that American students do not score well on tests of scientific problem solving, relative to students in other nations. IMMEX is a web-based virtual environment that provides students with opportunities to solve science problems by viewing information resources through a suite of menu options, developing a hypothesis…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Chemistry, Problem Solving, Educational Technology
O'Shea, Mary B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Although much is known about how students perform on standardized tests, little research exists concerning how students think and process while taking such tests. This mixed methods action research study was designed to investigate if a constructivist approach to test preparation could yield improved results for 37 English language arts freshmen…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Test Items, Statistical Analysis, Grade 9