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We report on two studies in which high school students who had been exposed to a cognitive training procedure known as the Conceptual Mediation Program (CMP) were compared to students who had not participated within the program. In the first study, based on data from two sites, it was found that 70 CMP students exhibited higher levels of school affect and strategy awareness than 103 comparable students not in the program. In the second study, based on retrospective data from one site, 53 students who had participated within CMP classes were found to exhibit higher levels of attainment on Year 12 South Australian public examination results (effect size of 1.04 on the aggregate). On the Year 12 examination results, the CMP students outperformed both the school and state norms.
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Yates, G.C.R., Lyndon, E.H. Conceptual Mediation Program in Practice: Educational Outcomes from Two Sites. Res Sci Educ 34, 389–401 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-004-1093-x
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