Cognitive fatigue influences students' performance on standardized tests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2621-2624

  Sievertsen, Hans Henrik ^a   Gino, Francesca ^b   Piovesan, Marco ^c  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breaks; Cognitive fatigue; Education; Standardized tests; Time of day

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COGNITIVE FATIGUE; DENMARK; DYSTHYMIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT; ACHIEVEMENT; ALGORITHM; COGNITION; EDUCATION; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; COGNITION; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL FATIGUE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84960840546     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516947113     Document Type: Article

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