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 ...

This study examines everyday classroom processes in 2 approaches to literacy instruction. 40 days of instruction were observed in second- and sixth-grade classrooms implementing either a ...

Before presenting a psychological test, investigators usually give the subjects task instructions on how to perform the task. We know little about how these instructions can influence subsequent task ...