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The Domain-General And Domain-Specific Profiles Of Computation And Problem-Solving Difficulties, Xin Lin
The Domain-General And Domain-Specific Profiles Of Computation And Problem-Solving Difficulties, Xin Lin
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of the study was to explore the domain-general and domain-specific profile of two important mathematics difficulties. Three domain-general measures (working memory, processing speed, reasoning), and three domain-specific measures (language comprehension, mathematics vocabulary, math fluency) were completed among 125 Chinese 4th grade students. Of these 125 students, 28 were classified as students with only calculation difficulties (CD), 34 were classified as having problem-solving difficulties (PD), 20 were classified as students with calculation and problem-solving difficulties (CPD), and 43 were typically developing (TD) peers. Multivariate analysis showed that, compared to TD, CD was associated with weakness in working memory …