Vigilant attention is a major component of a wide range of cognitive performance tasks.
Vigilant attention is impaired by sleep deprivation and restored after rest breaks and (more …

Staying attentive is challenging enough when carrying out everyday tasks, such as reading
or sitting through a lecture, and failures to do so can be frustrating and inconvenient …

On publication in 2009 John Hattie's Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection
of research into what actually work in schools to improve children's learning. Not what was …

Understanding the factors underlying variation in attentional state is critical in a number of
domains. Here, we investigate the relation between time on task and mind wandering (ie, a …

This research which investigates teachers' and students' opinions about students' attention
problems during the lesson is a descriptive study in the survey model. 432 teachers and …

We investigated the effect of short interruptions on performance of a task that required
participants to maintain their place in a sequence of steps each with their own performance …

In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned
educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in …

We have all had our thoughts wander from the immediate task at hand. The emerging
embodied cognition literature emphasizes the role that the body plays in human thought …

A powerful guide for applying brain research for more effective instruction The Brain-
Targeted Teaching Model for 21st-Century Schools serves as a bridge between research …

The influx of technology into the classroom presents a serious challenge for educators and
researchers. One of the greatest challenges is to better understand, given our knowledge of …