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 ...

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 ...