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Are Children with Disabilities in School and Learning? Evidence from a Household Survey in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
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Malik, Rabea; Raza, Fizza; Rose, Pauline; Singal, Nidhi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Invisibility of children with disabilities in data on educational access and learning is a key policy challenge for tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we report findings from a household survey undertaken in rural Punjab, Pakistan. These data enable us to identify the extent to which children with…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty, Out of School Youth
Parents' Education Is More Important than Their Wealth in Shaping Their Children's Intelligence: Results of 19 Samples in Seven Countries at Different Developmental Levels
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Rindermann, Heiner; Ceci, Stephen J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
In 19 (sub)samples from seven countries (United States, Austria, Germany, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Vietnam, Brazil), we analyzed the impact of parental education compared with wealth on the cognitive ability of children (aged 4-22 years, total N = 15,297). The background of their families ranged from poor indigenous remote villagers to academic…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Parent Child Relationship, Intelligence
Relation of Home Chaos to Cognitive Performance and Behavioral Adjustment of Pakistani Primary School Children
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Shamama-tus-Sabah, Syeda; Gilani, Nighat; Wachs, Theodore D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Recent findings from Western developed countries have linked home chaos to children's cognitive performance and behavioral problems. In the present paper we test whether the same pattern of associations can be replicated in a non-Western developing country. Our sample was 203 Pakistani primary school children. To assess home chaos the Confusion,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Developing Nations
Variation in Raven's Progressive Matrices Scores across Time and Place
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Brouwers, Symen A.; Van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Van Hemert, Dianne A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The paper describes a cross-cultural and historical meta-analysis of Raven's Progressive Matrices. Data were analyzed of 798 samples from 45 countries (N = 244,316), which were published between 1944 and 2003. Country-level indicators of educational permeation (which involves a broad set of interrelated educational input and output factors that…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Nonverbal Tests, Scores, Regional Characteristics