Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Working Memory Improvement Exercises on Increasing the Attention and School Performance in 9-12 Year Old Children with Attention Deficit

Atefeh Fakharinezhad, Farzaneh Niknezhadi and Yousef Gorji

International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 2014, vol. 3, issue 4, 313-320

Abstract: The Purpose of the present study is evaluation of the effectiveness of working memory improvement exercises on increasing the attention and school performance in 9-12 year old children with attention deficit. This is a quasi-experimental study which is of pretest-posttest type, with follow-up by a control group. The statistical population of this research includes the 9-12 year old students of Esfahan Province schools with 6 symptoms of attention deficit, who were chosen by multistage cluster sampling and were randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. The testes of this research were second, third and fourth grade female students, from among whom 15 students were placed in the control group, and 15 students were placed in the experimental group. CSI4 questionnaire and CPT software and working memory software were utilized for data collection, and after a month the follow-up session was held. The collected data was then analyzed in descriptive and inferential levels by SPSS software, and repeated measures analysis of variance was also utilized. Findings of the present study have revealed that the working memory improvement exercises had an impact on decreasing the responding (P

Keywords: Working Memory; Attention Deficit; School Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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