Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (1): 70-76.

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The Effect of Disciplinary Domain Knowledge and mathematical achievement On Working Memory Span

ZHAO Yan, CAI Xiao-yue   

  1. Educational college of Guangzhou university, Guangzhou Guangdong 510006
  • Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-15

Abstract: This study quoted the domain knowledge into math disciplinary-Disciplinary Domain Knowledge.The study chosen 60 seventh grade students as participants.According to rational number unit,disciplinary domain knowledge test and behavior experiment procedure be produced.The aim of this study is to investigate how disciplinary domain knowledge and mathematical achievement influence on working memory span. The results are as follows:first,the difference between poor students and excellent students are significant in procedural knowledge and conditional knowledge.It illustrate poor students can't do well in math not because they don't know the knowledge but don't know how to use it.Second,adopting the operation span task,working memory span of excellent students is more than poor students,but not significant in simple tasks.In complex-relative,complex-irrelative task,the difference is significant.finally,when storage words is related to math disciplinary,procedural knowledge and conditional knowledge showed a significant prediction on working memory span.when it is not related,conditional knowledge also can be a predictor of working memory span.

Key words: working memory span, disciplinary domain knowledge, mathematical achievement, junior school student

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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