W ORKING MEMORY IN CHILDREN WITH MATHEMATICAL DISABILITIES Frauke De Weerdt Annemie Desoete Herbert Roeyers Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology.

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W ORKING MEMORY IN CHILDREN WITH MATHEMATICAL DISABILITIES Frauke De Weerdt Annemie Desoete Herbert Roeyers Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Ghent University De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Overview 1.THEORETICAL BACKGROUND  Mathematical disabilities (MD)  Working memory  Working memory and MD  Reading and spelling in MD 2. METHOD  Research questions  Instruments  Procedure 3.RESULTS 4. DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Mathematical disabilities (MD) Definition MD:  Impairment in mathematical abilities  Exclusion, Below Expected and RTI criteria  Prevalence: % ( Barbaresi, Katuskic, Colligan, Weaver, & Jacobsen, 2005; Desoete, 2007; Dowker, 2005) De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Defining features:  Arithmetic facts  Mathematical procedures De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Etiology:  High heterogeneity:  Defective number module (Butterworth, 2005)  Impaired number sense and mental number line (Dehaene, Piazza, Pinel & Cohen, 2003)  Working memory (Bull & Scerif, 1999) De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Working memory (WM) WM model of Baddeley (1974; 2000)  Most common ( Landerl, Bevan, & Butterworth, 2004 )  Components:  Central Executive  Phonological Loop  Visuospatial Sketchpad  Episodic Buffer Figure 1: Current model of WM (Baddeley, 2002, p.93) De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Working Memory and Mathematical Disabilities  WM and fact retrieval (Desmedt et al., 2009; Lee & Kang, 2002; Noel, Seron, & Trovarelli, 2004)  WM and procedural knowledge (Wilson & Dehaene, 2007)  Slave systems: ambiguous results (D’Amico & Guarnera, 2005; Gathercole & Pickering, 2000) De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

 High comorbidity with RD (Lyytinen et al., 2005; Shalev, 2000, 2004)  Reading and spelling associated with WM (St Clair- Thompson & Gathercole, 2006) BUT: Lack of MD studies taking reading and spelling into account 1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: Reading, spelling, MD and WM De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Research questions 1.Does WM have an influence on fact retrieval and procedural knowledge (Desmedt et al., 2009) ? 2.Do children with MD have sig. lower scores on WM tasks than average achieving children, even when controlling for reading and spelling (Passolunghi, 2004; Schuchardt et al., 2006) ? 2. METHOD De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Participants  Recruitment in schools and RC’s  FSIQ ≥ 80  Normal range DBD (Pelham, Gnagy, Greenslade & Milich, 1992; Dutch translation: Oosterlaan et al., 2008)  MD group: exclusion-, below expected -, RTI- criteria De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Participants MD (N=36)AA (N=55) Age in months (11.80) (11.02) FSIQ95.42 (8.39) (9.85) M:F6:3025:30 De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Children: Session 1 (80’) Spelling test (20’)  PI-dictation (Geelhoed & Reitsma, 2000) Math tests (60’)  TTR (de Vos, 1992)  Fact retrieval  Courtrai’s Arithmetic Test-Revised (Baudonck et al., 2006)  Procedural knowledge De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Children: Session 2 (50’) Intelligence test (40’)  Abbreviated WISC-III NL (Wechsler et al., 2002; Grégoire, 2000) Reading tests (10’)  One Minute Test (Brus & Voeten, 1999)  Existing words  Klepel (van den Bos, Spelberg, Scheepstra & de Vries, 1994)  Pseudowords De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Session 3 (90’): Working memory tasks De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

 WMTB-C & AWMA  Span tasks  6 trials/span  ≥ 3 errors/span: task discontinued De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Phonological Loop : Digit Recall (DR) 500 ms1000 ms/digit; 1000 ms between digits of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Phonological Loop : Word Recall (WR) 500 ms1000 ms/word; 1000 ms between words of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Visuospatial Sketchpad: Block Recall (BR) 500 ms 1000 ms/block; 1000 ms between blocks of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Central Executive: Listening Recall (LR) 500 ms2000 ms De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Central Executive: Spatial Span (Spsp) 500 ms unlimited500 ms De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Central Executive : Backward Digit Recall (BDR) 500 ms1000 ms/digit; 1000 ms between digits of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Central Executive : Backward Word Recall (BWR) 500 ms1000 ms/word; 1000 ms between words of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Central Executive: Backward Block Recall (BRB) 500 ms 1000 ms/block; 1000 ms between blocks of same trial De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

WM, procedural knowledge and fact retrieval Procedural knowledge  Sig. influence of PL, VSSP and CE  PL: F(1,89)= 6.99, p ≤. 01, adj. R 2 =.06  VSPP: F(1,89)= 5.35, p ≤.05, adj. R 2 =.05  CE: F(1,65)= 20.33, p ≤. 001, adj. R 2 = RESULTS De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

WM, procedural knowledge and fact retrieval Fact retrieval  Sig. influence of PL, VSSP and CE  PL: F(1,89)= 5.46, p ≤. 05, adj. R 2 =.05  VSPP: F(1,89)= 11.61, p ≤.001, adj. R 2 =.11  CE: F(1,65)= 14.81, p ≤. 001, adj. R 2 =.17 De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Working memory in children with MD Mancova: computed z-variables acc PL, VSSP, CE Main effect group, no main effect gender, no interaction η 2 =.08 * De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 η 2 =.08 * η 2 =.14 **

Working memory in children with MD Ancova’s: raw scores accuracy PL, VSSP and CE η 2 =.06 * De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 η 2 =.06 * η 2 =.08 * η 2 =.16 ** η 2 =.06 *

Working memory in children with MD Mancova: mean RT PL, VSSP, CE No main effects, sig interaction-effect group*gender η 2 =.08 * De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

Working memory in children with MD Ancova’s: task RT PL, VSSP and CE η 2 =.07 * De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 η 2 =.05 *

Reading and spelling in children with MD  Sig. difference in reading and spelling performance between AA and MD group  Reading: t (89)= 5.47, p <.00  Spelling: t (89)= 6.72, p <.00  High correlations between spelling/reading and math  Reading and fact retrieval: r=.58, p ≤.01  Reading and procedural knowledge: r=.39, p ≤.01  Spelling and fact retrieval: r=.56, p ≤.01  Spelling and procedural knowledge: r=.43, p ≤.01 De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011

De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 η 2 =.10 * η 2 =.18 ** Working memory in children with MD in control of reading Mancova computed z-scores PL, VSSP and CE Only main-effect of group

De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 η 2 =.07 * η 2 =.09 η 2 =.11 ** Working memory in children with MD in control of spelling Mancova computed z-scores PL, VSSP and CE Main-effect of group; and main-effect of covariate! η 2 =.11 **

De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011 Summary of results  Sig. lower acc DR, BR, DRB, BRB, SpSp  Role of CE!  Influence of spelling in WM in children with MD  Sig. large r math and reading/spelling Children with MD suffer from WM problems Impact of spelling on math performance 4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

Implications  Spelling test  Reading tests?!  WMTB-C Treatment = more than just math! De Weerdt et al. – Working memory in children with mathematical disabilities Rekengroep - 25/01/2011