Enhancing basic academic skills of low-achieving students: the role of automaticity in numeracy, reading and comprehension

该项目旨在提高成绩不佳的学生的基本阅读和算术技能。本研究的目的是考察基本技能自动化程度的提高对理解和解决问题等高阶过程的影响。该程序的基本原理是，提高组件技能的自动化程度，如解码或计算，可以释放工作内存资源。这种资源的释放使学生能够专注于内在地需要注意力的更高层次的认知活动，这是学生在中学时代越来越需要的那种活动。

The project is designed to improve the basic reading and numeracy skills of low-achieving school students. The aim of the research is to investigate the effects of improved automaticity of basic skills on higher-order processes such as comprehension and problem solving. The underlying rationale for the program is that improving automaticity in component skills, such as decoding or calculating, frees up working memory resources. This freeing up of resources allows students to focus on inherently attention demanding higher-order cognitive activities, of the sort increasingly required of students in the middle school years.