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 ...

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

One of the cognitive functions that separates humans from other animals is that humans can perform a variety of tasks by following verbal or written instructions. A new research team at the University ...

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 ...

Superintendent Thurmond was joined by State Assemblymember Heather Hadwick and State Senator Susan Rubio as well as ...

Task analyses are ubiquitous to applied behavior analysis interventions, yet little is known about the factors that make them effective. Numerous task analyses have been published in behavior analytic ...

Past research and theory presents an inconsistent picture concerning the relative value of verbal versus visual instructional programs for individuals with mental retardation. From an empirical ...