Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0345508
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Enhancing basic academic skills of low-achieving students: the role of automaticity in numeracy, reading and comprehension. The project is designed to improve the basic reading and numeracy skills of low-achieving school students. The aim of the research is to investigate the effects of improved automaticity of basic skills on higher-order processes such as comprehension and problem solving. The underlying rationale for the program is that improving automaticity in component skills, such as decoding or calculating, frees up working memory resources. This freeing up of resources allows students to focus on inherently attention demanding higher-order cognitive activities, of the sort increasingly required of students in the middle school years.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2003
End Date: 12-2005
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $150,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Assessment And Evaluation | Special Education | Educational Psychology | Specialist Studies in Education
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Special education | Primary education | Secondary education |
