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Direct linkCushen, Patrick J.; Wiley, Jennifer – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
What makes a person able to solve problems creatively? One interesting factor that may contribute is experience with multiple languages from an early age. Bilingual individuals who acquire two languages by the age of 6 have been shown to demonstrate superior performance on a number of thinking tasks that require flexibility. However, bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
Sanchez, Christopher A.; Wiley, Jennifer – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Males traditionally outperform females on measures of both visuospatial ability and science achievement. This experiment directly tests a manipulation designed to compensate for such differences through the presentation of relevant illustrations or animations to support the construction of understanding of a specific scientific phenomenon. Males…
Descriptors: Visualization, Science Achievement, Plate Tectonics, Short Term Memory
Sanchez, Christopher A.; Wiley, Jennifer; Miura, Timothy K.; Colflesh, Gregory J. H.; Ricks, Travis R.; Jensen, Melinda S.; Conway, Andrew R. A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The present studies directly test the usefulness of two English-language working memory capacity (WMC) assessments with two samples of students whose native language was not English. Participants completed two widely used complex span tasks, Reading Span (RSpan) and Operation Span (OSpan), in English. To determine whether the well-established…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Evaluation Methods, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
