Tracy Alloway, PhD

Improving Working Memory, Alloway 2010 (Sage Press)

IPPISSISSIM

NATSHKAZAK

The cat sat on the mat. Where was the cat sitting? (3+9)x8=?

Cowan & Alloway (2008) Development of Memory in Infancy & ChildhoodSwanson & Alloway (2012) APA Educational Psychology Handbook

EducationHappinessLifespan

Alloway TP (2010) Improving Working Memory (Sage Press)

Alloway et al (2005) British Journal of Developmental PsychologyAlloway et al (2004) J. of Experimental Child Psychology

READINGWRITING

MATH

READINGSPELLING

MATH

Alloway & Alloway (2010) JECP

Gifted: NAGC

High IQ, not all High WM

IQ measures WHAT you know

WM measures WHAT YOU DO with what you knowAlloway & Elsworth (2012) Learning & Individual Diff

ADHDAUTISTIC

SPECTRUM DISORDER

READING & MATH

DISABILITIES

DYSPRAXIA

WM

Alloway et al (2009) J. of Learning Disabilities

Additive Effect

Working Memory: Education

Working Memory: Equalizer

Financial background/ Socio-economic Status Mother’s educational level

Alloway et al (2005) British J of Developmental Psychology;Alloway, Alloway, & Wootan (2014) J of Experimental Child Psy

Depression

Optimism▪ Overall, I expect more good things to happen

to me than bad. ▪ I rarely count on good things happening to me.

Optimism

Optimism

WMWM

Depression

Depression

Alloway & Alloway, Moulder (2014) Under reivew

HOW BIG

IS YOUR

POST-IT NOTE?

Alloway TP (2007). AWMA. Pearson Assessment

Oranges live in

water

T or F?

Lions have four legs

T or F?

Alloway TP (2007). AWMA. Pearson Assessment

Last words?

Alloway TP (2007). AWMA. Pearson Assessment

5 years

10 years

15 years

70 years

Alloway, TP., & Alloway, RG (2013, J. of Cognitive Psychology)

5 years

10 years

15 years

60 years

Alloway, TP., & Alloway, RG (2013, J. of Cognitive Psychology)

B

WM: Cross-cultural