Working Memory and Education

by Gary D. Phye, Susan J. Pickering

Overview

Psychologists have been trying to understand the factors that underpin children's success and failure in different educational domains for many years. One psychological function that has been found to play an important role in educational achievement is 'working memory', the processes involved in the temporary maintenance and manipulation of information. This book provides the reader with an up-to-date review of the research that has identified how working memory relates to academic attainment in: reading, reading comprehension, arithmetic and writing, as well as looking at how children with difficulties relating to hearing impairment and attention deficits differ in terms of their working memory. Other chapters focus on how working memory is called upon in classroom settings, how working memory can be assessed, and approaches to remediation. The opening chapter of the book provides an account of working memory from the architect of the model that has dominated psychological theory for over two decades. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists, educationalists, and anyone seeking to understand more about the cognitive basis of educational achievement in children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780125544658
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/10/2006
Series:	Educational Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gary D. Phye, Past President of the Iowa Educational Research and Evaluation Association, is the new editor of the Academic Press Educational Psychology Book Series. He has published numerous research articles and book chapters in the areas of classroom learning and transfer. He previously co-edited two of the bestselling volumes in the book series: School Psychology with Dan Reschly and Cognitive Classroom Learning with Tom Andre. In addition to being the co-author of an undergraduate educational psychology text, Dr. Phye has also co-authored (with K. Josef Klauer) a newly-published program designed to teach and assess the inductive reasoning and metacognitive strategies of young children. Dr. Phye is currently working with the Ames Community public schools in the training and assessment of inductive reasoning strategies of special needs children in primary and intermediate grades.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Working Memory: An Overview
Alan Baddeley

2. Understanding Normal and Impaired Reading Development: A Working Memory Perspective
Peter F. de Jong

3. Children's Reading Comprehension: The Role of Working Memory in Normal and Impaired Development
Kate Cain

4. Working Memory, Executive Functioning, and Children's Mathematics
Rebecca Bull and Kimberly Andrews Espy

5. Working Memory and Dynamic Testing in Children with Learning Disabilities
H. Lee Swanson

6. Deconstructing Working Memory in Developmental Disorders of Attention
Kim Cornish, John Wilding, and Cathy Grant

7. Working Memory and Deafness: Implications for Cognitive Development and Functioning
Madeleine Keehner and Joanna Atkinson

8. Working Memory in the Classroom
Susan E. Gathercole, Emily Lamont, and Tracy Packiam Alloway

9. Assessment of Working Memory in Children
Susan J. Pickering

10. Sources of Working Memory Deficits in Children and Possibilities for Remediation
Meredith Minear and Priti Shah

Subject Index

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It is about the role that working memory (aka short-term memory) plays in educational attainment and learning disabilities