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View article: Instructional Strategies to Maintain Students’ Attention: A National Teacher Survey on Classroom-Based Breaks
Instructional Strategies to Maintain Students’ Attention: A National Teacher Survey on Classroom-Based Breaks Open
Teachers report difficulties sustaining students’ attention during instruction, a challenge exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers are seeking instructional strategies that help regulate students’ attention while simultaneously fac…
View article: Introducing the <i>Social Policy Report</i> Editorial Board and this Special Issue
Introducing the <i>Social Policy Report</i> Editorial Board and this Special Issue Open
To provide policymakers and affiliated audiences (including elected officials, government agency staff, program developers, and practitioners) with comprehensive, nonpartisan reviews of child development research findings to inform decisio…
View article: Attending to what’s important: what heat maps may reveal about attention, inhibitory control, and fraction arithmetic performance
Attending to what’s important: what heat maps may reveal about attention, inhibitory control, and fraction arithmetic performance Open
Math proficiency is an important predictor of educational attainment and life success. However, developing mathematical competency is challenging, and some content (e.g., fractions) can be enigmatic. Numerous factors are suspected to influ…
View article: Teaching and Learning during a Global Pandemic: Perspectives from Elementary School Teachers and Parents
Teaching and Learning during a Global Pandemic: Perspectives from Elementary School Teachers and Parents Open
COVID-19 has had a major impact on education, with many children attending school online for more than a year. To understand the implications of online learning for U.S. teachers (Study 1; N = 49) and families (Study 2; N = 189) of element…
View article: The Decorated Learning Environment: Simply Noise or an Opportunity for Incidental Learning?
The Decorated Learning Environment: Simply Noise or an Opportunity for Incidental Learning? Open
Maintaining attention during instruction is challenging as children face various sources of distraction (peers, announcements, noise) as well as competition from the visual environment itself. Prior studies found decorated environments pro…