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Download full textTrendeline Haliti-Sylaj; Alisa Sadiku – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Frequent reels that have gained immense popularity on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, significantly reduce attention span and impairs academic performance. This study investigates the impact of frequent exposure to short video reels on undergraduate students' attention span and academic performance, assuming that attention span…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Films, Attention Span, Academic Achievement
Direct linkJun, Jihyang; Toh, Yi Ni; Sisk, Caitlin A.; Remington, Roger W.; Lee, Vanessa G. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has considerably heightened health and financial concerns for many individuals. Similar concerns, such as those associated with poverty, impair performance on cognitive control tasks. If ongoing concerns about COVID-19 substantially increase the tendency to mind wander in tasks requiring sustained…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Attention Span, Young Adults
McQuillan, Maureen E.; Bates, John E.; Staples, Angela D.; Hoyniak, Caroline P.; Rudasill, Kathleen M.; Molfese, Victoria J. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The present study examined individual differences in the development of sustained attention across toddlerhood, as well as how these individual differences related to the development of language and sleep. Toddlers (N = 314; 54% male) were assessed at 30, 36, and 42 months using multiple measures of attention, a standardized language assessment,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Individual Differences, Attention Span, Age Differences
Larsen, Sally A.; Little, Callie W.; Coventry, William L. – Child Development, 2021
This research investigated whether delayed school entry was associated with higher achievement in national tests of reading and numeracy in Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9 (n = 2,823). Delayed entry was related to advantages in reading (0.14 SD) and numeracy (0.08 SD) at Grade 3, although little variance was explained (1%-2%). This slight advantage…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 3
Ahmed, Sammy F.; Kuhfeld, Megan; Watts, Tyler W.; Davis-Kean, Pamela E.; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The present study examined longitudinal associations between preschoolers' executive function (EF) and adult educational attainment, impulse control, and general health directly and through its cascading effects on childhood and adolescent EF using a large, national, and prospective longitudinal sample of participants. Data were drawn from the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Adults, Educational Attainment
