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Bostrom, Robert N. – International Journal of Listening, 2011
Theory about listening has been strongly affected by methodological orientations and institutional pressures. It would help if researchers spent more time on the objects of study rather than method. Traditional listening research has confused listening with general cognitive abilities, such as IQ. Studying listening as memory is a tempting…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Cognitive Ability, Second Language Instruction, Listening Skills
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Perez, Cynthia M.; Widom, Cathy Spatz – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1994
This study comparing 413 adults who had been abused and/or neglected as children with a control group (n=286) found significant differences between groups in IQ and reading ability, even when controlling for age, sex, race, and social class. Types of maltreatment were associated with differences in IQ and reading ability. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Correlation
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Cantwell, Alisa; Rubin, Hyla – Annals of Dyslexia, 1992
This study compared the object naming, object recognition, reading, and spelling abilities of 22 adults, half with written language difficulties and half without. Significant positive relationships were obtained between object naming ability and reading ability, object naming and spelling, and reading and spelling performance. Results suggest that…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Expressive Language, Learning Disabilities
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Blatchford, Peter; Plewis, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Presents results from 2 British studies relating preschool reading skills and reading attainment reached by age 11. Substantiates and extends earlier research that correlated early letter identification with reading ability at age seven. Also indicates no support for hypothesis that letter sounding rather than naming predicts subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Correlation, Early Reading, Foreign Countries