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Shore, Rebecca; Ray, Jenna; Goolkasian, Paula – Middle School Journal (J3), 2013
This article describes how researchers take a multidisciplinary approach to investigating how middle grades students learn science vocabulary. The authors investigated teaching strategies for increasing retention of science vocabulary with seventh graders and stumbled upon an interesting finding that was not even a target for their study, yet it…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Grade 7
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Li, Ruijie; Liu, Karen P. Y. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2012
The aim of this article was to review the evidence of errorless learning on learning outcomes in patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. A computer-aided literature search from 1999 to 2011 was carried out using MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycINFO and PsycArticles. Keywords included…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Alzheimers Disease, Learning Strategies, Patients
Madden, David J.; Mitchell, David B. – 1983
In recent research, two qualitatively different classes of mental operations have been identified. The performance of one type of cognitive task requires attention, in the sense of mental effort, for its execution, while the second type can be performed automatically, independent of attentional control. Further research has shown that automatic…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Attention, Cognitive Processes