Working memory training

Overview

• Influence: Working memory training
• Domain: Student Learning Strategies
• Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
• Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
• Influence Definition: The capacity to temporarily retain and manipulate information. It is often claimed to consist of four components: the phonological loop; the visuospatial sketchpad; the episodic buffer integrates or ‘binds' and consequently stores information from the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad with long-term memory; and then these three storage systems work under the influence of the central executive, which is responsible for retrieving and manipulating information, and directing resources to the storage components.

Evidence

• Number of meta-analyses: 11
• Number of studies: 366
• Number of students: 21,488
• Number of effects: 2,704
• Weighted mean effect size: 0.36
• Robustness index: 4