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Altani, Angeliki; Protopapas, Athanassios; Georgiou, George K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Although it is established that reading fluency is more strongly related to serial naming of symbols than to naming of isolated items ("serial superiority effect"), the reason for the difference remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of executive functions in explaining the serial superiority effect. One…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Naming, Reading Fluency, Serial Ordering
Delgado, Cesar – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Size and scale are crosscutting ideas integral to scientific understanding. However, research shows that students have little understanding of the size of objects, particularly objects too small to see with the unaided eye. Using a cross-sectional study with 101 middle-school through undergraduate students, a teaching experiment with 24 middle…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Mathematical Concepts, Measurement, Classification