What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers

Effective teachers recognise that as their students grow, the way in which their students learn changes. This is related to different developmental stages of the brain that occur as a child becomes an adult. This article discusses the concept of working memory and explores how working memory changes...

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Main Authors: Price, Andrew, Oliver, Mary, Joshua, McGrane
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Published: Australian Science Teachers Association 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32090/
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description Effective teachers recognise that as their students grow, the way in which their students learn changes. This is related to different developmental stages of the brain that occur as a child becomes an adult. This article discusses the concept of working memory and explores how working memory changes during adolescence. The research presented here used an approach to measuring working memory using electroencephalography (EEG) to examine differences in the capacity for using working memory between older and younger adolescent students at a school in Western Australia. The differences in the neurological processes related to working memory in adolescents of different ages were examined with implications for teachers in secondary schools.
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spelling nottingham-320902020-05-04T20:08:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32090/ What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers Price, Andrew Oliver, Mary Joshua, McGrane Effective teachers recognise that as their students grow, the way in which their students learn changes. This is related to different developmental stages of the brain that occur as a child becomes an adult. This article discusses the concept of working memory and explores how working memory changes during adolescence. The research presented here used an approach to measuring working memory using electroencephalography (EEG) to examine differences in the capacity for using working memory between older and younger adolescent students at a school in Western Australia. The differences in the neurological processes related to working memory in adolescents of different ages were examined with implications for teachers in secondary schools. Australian Science Teachers Association 2015-06 Article PeerReviewed Price, Andrew, Oliver, Mary and Joshua, McGrane (2015) What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers. Teaching Science, 61 (2). pp. 26-32. ISSN 1449-6313 working memory education prefrontal cortex brain cognition https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=488653801662026;res=IELHSS
spellingShingle working memory
education
prefrontal cortex
brain
cognition
Price, Andrew
Oliver, Mary
Joshua, McGrane
What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title_full What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title_fullStr What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title_full_unstemmed What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title_short What's working memory to do with it? A case study on teenagers
title_sort what's working memory to do with it? a case study on teenagers
topic working memory
education
prefrontal cortex
brain
cognition
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32090/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32090/