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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

Short-Term Memory: What It Is, How It Works, Improving (Program Included)

Short-term memory holds a small amount of information in the mind for a few seconds. Short-term memory is limited to about seven items and will be lost in about fifteen seconds unless the information is rehearsed.

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Sep 15, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Edublox Research

How We Create Learning @ Edublox

While Edublox is not a quick fix, its use can permanently alleviate the symptoms of learning disabilities like dyslexia and dyscalculia. Here is how we create learning.

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Aug 31, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

What Is Visual Memory? Types, Importance, Improving

Visual memory is the ability to recall what the eyes have seen. Learn more about visual memory types, its importance, and how to improve it.

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Jun 8, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Attention Deficits and ADHD

Improving Concentration: A Skill That Can Be Taught

Improving concentration in children can be achieved not only by using clinically proven natural medicines, but also by exposing them to training in the fundamental cognitive skills that underlie the learning process.

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Jun 1, 2023The Edublox Team
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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

Processing Speed: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Improve

Processing speed involves one or more of the following functions: the length of time it takes to perceive information, process information, and formulate or enact a response. Slow processing speed is not a formal learning disability, but it can play a part in learning and attention issues like dyslexia, ADHD, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia.

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May 29, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Attention Deficits and ADHD

Attention: What It Is, 5 Types, How to Improve

Attention or concentration (the words attention and concentration are synonyms) is a fundamental learning skill. Poor attention ability can be a sign of behavior and learning disorders such as hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder (ADD).

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May 8, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

16 Cognitive Skills that Matter, How to Improve Them

Cognitive skills, also called cognitive abilities, cognitive functions, or cognitive capabilities, are mental skills used in acquiring knowledge, manipulating information, reasoning, and problem-solving.

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May 6, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Edublox Research

Increasing Your Child’s Performance or Nonverbal IQ: A Case Study

Before she started Edublox intervention, her performance IQ was a mere 72. Two years later, it was retested at 97 - an increase of 25 IQ points. Read the long-term results of Edublox intervention.

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Apr 15, 2023The Edublox Team
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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

Auditory Memory: Importance, Test, Overcoming Deficits

Auditory memory involves taking in information that is presented orally, processing that information, storing it in one’s mind, and then recalling what one has heard. Basically, it involves the skills of attending, listening, processing, storing, and recalling.

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Mar 30, 2023Sue du Plessis
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Edublox Research

10 Research- and Evidence-Based Practices Applied by Edublox Reading and Math Interventions

Edublox Online Tutor is aligned with research-based and evidence-based reading practices as recommended by the National Reading Panel (NRP) in 2000, as well as important research studies that followed. Although we will focus on reading in the article, Edublox's numeracy program is based on the same principles.

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Mar 2, 2023The Edublox Team
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Edublox in the Press and Edublox News

Auditory Short-term Memory, Visual Sequential Memory and Inductive Reasoning Matter for Academic Achievement

This paper was presented virtually at the EduLearn19 International Conference on New Learning Technologies in Palma, Spain. The study confirms the importance of strong cognitive skills for academic achievement; the cognitive skill with the strongest correlation was auditory short-term memory.

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Feb 26, 2023The Edublox Team
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Cognitive Skills and Study Methods

Cognitive Skills and their Impact on Academic Achievement

Edublox Online Tutor provides a free online assessment to measure a number of cognitive skills, specifically visual sequential memory, auditory memory, iconic memory and logical reasoning. Sixty-four Grade 2 students of an inner-city school took the test after which their test scores were correlated with their academic grades using the Pearson Correlation.

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Nov 14, 2022Sue du Plessis