Instruction-based learning and automaticity represent key cognitive mechanisms through which explicit instructions are transformed into fluid, near-effortless behaviour. This process commences with ...

Cross-posted from Inside School Research. Elementary students spend nearly a third of their time off task, with distractions more likely to happen when children are working on their own or receiving ...

Chua, Roy Y.J., and S. Iyengar. "Creativity As a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction As Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity." Journal of Creative ...

The major question in this study was: Does media with high potential for motivational effects lead to increased task involvement or increased achievement in the classroom or both? Specifically, does ...

To ensure that literacy practices are aligned to research districtwide, you need a plan—and a team to help carry it out.

Imagine a teenager who is asked by his parent to mow the lawn. Seems pretty straight forward, right? The parent and the teenager each have an idea of what it means to “mow the lawn,” but those ideas ...