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A review of feedback models and typologies: Towards an integrative model of feedback elements Open
A number of models has been proposed to describe various types of feedback along with mechanisms through which feedback may improve student performance and learning. We selected fourteen most prominent models, which we discussed in two com…
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The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review Open
A critical review was conducted to determine the influence background knowledge has on the reading comprehension of primary school-aged children. We identified twenty-three studies that met our criteria and focused on the links between bac…
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Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis Open
Context is a key concept in developing realist causal explanations but its conceptualisation has received comparatively less attention. We conducted a review to explore how context is conceptualised within realist reviews and evaluations. …
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Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review Open
Behavioral treatment gains established in one setting do not always maintain in other settings. The present review examines the relevance of basic and translational research to understanding failures to maintain treatment gains across sett…
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Processing gradable adjectives in context: A Visual World study Open
Both relative adjectives (RAs) like ‘big’ and absolute adjectives (AAs) like ‘empty’ are sensitive to the context: in the former case, the context determines how much size is required to count as big; in the latter, the context determines …
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Contexts and pragmatics learning: Problems and opportunities of the study abroad research Open
Despite different epistemologies and assumptions, all theories in second language (L2) acquisition emphasize the centrality of context in understanding L2 acquisition. Under the assumption that language emerges from use in context, the cog…
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The Moderating Role of the School Context on the Effects of the Healthy Primary School of the Future Open
Background: The current study investigated the moderating role of the school context on the effects of a Dutch health promoting school initiative on children’s health and health behaviors. Methods: The study used a mixed-methods design. Th…
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Memory states influence value-based decisions. Open
Using memory to guide decisions allows past experience to improve future outcomes. However, the circumstances that modulate how and when memory influences decisions are not well understood. Here, we report that the use of memories to guide…
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Classroom Interaction in Teaching English as Foreign Language at Lower Secondary Schools in Indonesia Open
The aim of this study was to develop a deep understanding of interaction in language classroom in foreign language context. Interviews, as major instrument, to twenty experienced English language teachers from eight lower secondary schools…
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Dyscalculia and Typical Math Achievement Are Associated With Individual Differences in Number-Specific Executive Function Open
Deficits in numerical magnitude perception characterize the mathematics learning disability developmental dyscalculia (DD), but recent studies suggest the relation stems from inhibitory control demands from incongruent visual cues in the n…
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The effect of self-assessment on academic performance and the role of explicitness: a meta-analysis Open
It has been suggested for many years that students who are able to judge their own performance should do well in academic assessments. Despite the increasing number of empirical studies investigating the effect of self-assessment on academ…
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The influence of prior knowledge on experiment design guidance in a science inquiry context Open
Designing and conducting sound and informative experiments is an important aspect of inquiry learning. Students, however, often design experiments that do not allow them to reach conclusions. Considering the difficulties students experienc…
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The role of episodic context in retrieval practice effects. Open
The episodic context account of retrieval-based learning proposes that retrieval enhances subsequent retention because people must think back to and reinstate a prior learning context. Three experiments directly tested this central assumpt…
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WhatsApp Groups in Academic Context: Exploring the Academic Uses of WhatsApp Groups among the Students Open
The present study explores the uses of WhatsApp groups in the education context. It examines utilities and burdens associated with educational WhatsApp groups. The study also explores how the presence of teachers in the groups can influenc…
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Context-based facilitation of semantic access follows both logarithmic and linear functions of stimulus probability Open
Stimuli are easier to process when context makes them predictable, but does context-based facilitation arise from preactivation of a limited set of relatively probable upcoming stimuli (with facilitation then linearly related to probabilit…
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Contextual Richness and Word Learning: Context Enhances Comprehension but Retrieval Enhances Retention Open
Learning new vocabulary from context typically requires multiple encounters during which word meaning can be retrieved from memory or inferred from context. We compared the effect of memory retrieval and context inferences on short‐ and lo…
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Authenticity in Context: Being True to Working Selves Open
The core premise of this article is that it is scientifically informative and psychologically meaningful to conceptualize and assess authenticity in context. I begin by providing some theoretical background on the nature of the self-concep…
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Context-related problems and university students’ dropout intentions—the buffering effect of personal best goals Open
This study investigates the effects of contextual and motivational factors as well as, crucially, their interaction in predicting university students' dropout intentions. We focus on context-related problems in students' degree program as …
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Composition-Effects of Context-based Learning Opportunities on Students’ Understanding of Energy Open
Context-based learning has become a widespread approach in science education. While positive motivational effects of such approaches have been well established empirically, clear results regarding cognitive aspects of students' learning ar…
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Robust Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation: Christmash Time Is Here Again Open
A long‐standing question in cognitive science is how high‐level knowledge is integrated with sensory input. For example, listeners can leverage lexical knowledge to interpret an ambiguous speech sound, but do such effects reflect direct to…
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A Lattice Model of the Development of Reading Comprehension Open
In this article, I present a developmental model of how children learn to comprehend what they read, which builds on current models of reading comprehension and integrates findings from instructional research and evidence‐based models of d…
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Masked Sentence Recognition in Children, Young Adults, and Older Adults Open
Different effects of masker type and target context are observed at different points across the lifespan. While the two-talker masker is particularly challenging for children and older adults, the speech masker may limit the use of semanti…
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How similarity between choice options affects decisions from experience: The accentuation-of-differences model. Open
Traditional theories of decision making require that humans evaluate choice options independently of each other. The independence principle underlying this notion states that the relative choice probability of two options should be indepen…
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The Relationship Between English Reading Proficiency and Academic Achievement of First-Year Science and Mathematics Students in a Multilingual Context Open
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Teachers’ Adoption of Inquiry-Based Learning Activities: The Importance of Beliefs About Education, the Self, and the Context Open
Even though studies have shown that the impact of professional development on inquiry-based learning (IBL) tends to remain limited when it fails to consider teachers’ beliefs, there is little known about how these beliefs influence teacher…
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The limits of the foreign language effect on decision-making: The case of the outcome bias and the representativeness heuristic Open
Language context (native vs. foreign) affects people's choices and preferences in a wide variety of situations. However, emotional reactions are a key component driving people's choices in those situations. In six studies, we test whether …
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The Influence of High-/Low-Context Culture on Perceived Ad Complexity and Liking Open
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Role Models in Language Learning: Results of a Large-Scale International Survey Open
Role models can exert considerable influence in shaping individuals’ values, attitudes, and beliefs. A large body of work in the social sciences has investigated the influence of celebrity role models, and in the context of education, seve…
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Learning strategies and self-regulation in context: how higher education students approach different courses, assessments, and challenges Open
This study’s aim was to analyse the decisions higher education students make about learning strategies. We focus on research questions related to the strategies that students report, their strategy adaptability to different learning situat…
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Positionality: The Interplay of Space, Context and Identity Open
This article considers the way in which positionality shifts and is formed during a cross-cultural study to reveal the complexity of the insider-outsider status. As a researcher in a male-dominated game setting, I reflect on the research p…