Working Memory and the Difficulty of Learning among Elementary and Junior High School Students: Working Memory Assessments on the Web

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  • 児童生徒におけるワーキングメモリと学習困難：ウェブにおけるアセスメントの試み
  • ジドウ セイト ニ オケル ワーキングメモリ ト ガクシュウ コンナン : ウェブ ニ オケル アセスメント ノ ココロミ

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<p>Previous research indicates that working memory is closely related to learning, and that children with developmental disorders often have problems in working memory. In this study, we assessed the working memory of 372 elementary and junior high school students with some difficulties of learning on the web. We analyzed the relationships between the domains of learning difficulties and the dimensions of working memory: a verbal short-term memory, a verbal working memory, a visuo-spatial short-term memory, and a visuo-spatial working memory. A low score of each dimension of working memory has significant relations with the learning of specific skills and knowledge in Japanese and mathematics. Children with learning difficulties did not necessarily have poor working memory. Some children seemed to have the difficulties of learning because of poor working memory, some did because of the characteristics of disorders, and others did because of the interaction of both poor working memory and the characteristics of disorders.</p>

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