The Impact of Strategy Training on Working Memory and Math Performance

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Division C Section 2a Poster Session 4: Cognitive Processes

Abstract

An experiment investigates the effects of strategy training on working memory (WM) and math performance in children (ages 7-11). Children were randomly assigned to either a control group or one of two WM training conditions (repeated-practice only or cued-practice). In general, children with relatively low fluid intelligence, benefited from WM training; whereas children with relatively high fluid intelligence did not. The results suggest that treatment outcomes related to working memory training were moderated by fluid intelligence.

Authors

• Meaghan Beth McMurran, University of California - Riverside

• H. Lee Swanson, University of California - Riverside