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Peer reviewedVan Camp, Sarah S.; Bixby, Matilda B. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1977
This study attempted to gather baseline data on a randomly selected population of 353 kindergarten and first-grade children for consistency of response in hand dominance measures and eye dominance measures and for comparison by sex, race, maturity and socioeconomic status. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Lateral Dominance, Maturation, Racial Differences
Van Camp, Sarah S. – 1980
This paper reports a study of cerebral dominance in 42 preschool and kindergarten children. In order to tap left hemisphere functioning, a story of approximately 650 words and 77 specific plot details was composed. Children listened to the 7 minute story and were asked to repeat it. Responses were taped. Tangram pieces were used to assess right…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Language Skills, Lateral Dominance
Peer reviewedVan Camp, Sarah S. – Home Economics Research Journal, 1978
A three-year longitudinal study conducted to assess the incidence of mixed laterality in elementary school children showed that thirty-seven percent of the eighty-two subjects had mixed laterality. No relationship was found between perceptual motor and academic achievement as measured by teacher ratings and mixed laterality. (MF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cerebral Dominance, Correlation, Elementary School Students
