Learning and Instruction
August 2008 Volume 18, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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Time students spend working at home for school
Petra Wagner, Barbara Schober & Christiane Spiel
The paper presents three studies which deal with the time students spend working at home for school. In addition, the paper focuses on the distribution of time investment over the course of a week ... More
pp. 309-320
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Family and motivation effects on mathematics achievement: Analyses of students in 41 countries
Ming Ming Chiu & Zeng Xihua
This study examines family and motivation effects on student mathematics achievement across 41 countries. The Rasch estimates of PISA mathematics test scores and questionnaire responses of 107,975 ... More
pp. 321-336
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The effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge on low- and high-achieving students
Anat Zohar & Bracha Peled
This study assessed the effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge (MSK) on gains of low-achieving (LA) and high-achieving (HA) 5th grade students ( More
pp. 337-353
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Profiles of algebraic competence
Judi Humberstone & Robert A. Reeve
The algebraic competence of 72 12-year-old female students was examined to identify profiles of understanding reflecting different algebraic knowledge states. Beginning algebraic competence ... More
pp. 354-367
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Learning with multiple representations: Extending multimedia learning beyond the lab
Billie Eilam & Yael Poyas
The present study extended multimedia learning principles beyond the lab to an ecologically valid setting (homework). Eighteen information cards were used to perform three homework tasks. The... More
pp. 368-378
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An aptitude–treatment interaction approach to writing-to-learn
Marleen Kieft, Gert Rijlaarsdam & Huub van den Bergh
In this article, we propose to link the study of writing-to-learn to the theory of aptitude–treatment interaction (ATI). In an experimental study we examined the effects of a course on “Writing-to-... More
pp. 379-390
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Cognitive and linguistic constraints on phoneme isolation in Dutch kindergartners
Saskia de Graaff, Fred Hasselman, Anna M.T. Bosman & Ludo Verhoeven
This study investigated whether task instructions affect sound-isolation performance. The effects of phoneme class and phoneme position were also assessed. Two hundred Dutch kindergartners were... More
pp. 391-403