ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine the effects of auditory memory, visual memory, and vocabulary knowledge on intramodal and intermodal delayed matching-to-sample tasks. A secondary objective was to assess the value of task performance and trait measures in predicting reading achievement. A total of 52 first graders were randomly selected as participants and their cognitive traits were...

This study attempts to investigate whether a difference exists between learning vocabulary via animation and via traditional paper-based method. This small scale study was conducted at Karadeniz Technical University in academic year 2009-2010. Two pre-intermediate classes were randomly selected as the experimental group (n=17), and control group (n=22) as each class accommodated that number. Re...

The purpose of this study was tc identify the relationship between reading Lchievemert and a set of social and individual variables through the use of a critical path analysis. Data, taken from Cycle II of the Naticnal Health Examination Survey, included statistics on a national sample of 7,119 children, ages six through eleven years. Four variables were included in this study: sex, race, age, ...

Although prior research suggests that Latino children of immigrants are segregated in lowincome, high-minority schools, no prior work has examined the eVects of race and class composition on Latino student’s academic achievement or the extent to which compositional eVects vary by generational status. We analyze the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data using hierarc...

Mathematics anxiety (MA) has been defined as "a feeling of tension and anxiety that interferes with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of math problems in a wide variety of ordinary life and academic situations." Previous studies have suggested that a notable proportion of children in primary and secondary school suffer from MA, which is negatively correlated with calculation skills. T...

Adolescents in high school suffer from circadian misalignment, undersleeping on weekdays and oversleeping on weekends. Since high schools usually impose early schedules, adolescents suffer from permanent social jetlag (SJL) and thus are a suitable population to study the effects of SJL on both academic and cognitive performance. In this study, 796 adolescents aged 12-16 years reported informati...

ing children to decode (that is, turn print into speech sounds), it’s disheartening that we still have not overcome the “fourth-grade slump” in reading comprehension. We’re finding that even though the vast majority of our youngest readers can manage simple texts, many students—particularly those from low-income families—struggle when it comes time in grade four to tackle more advanced academic...