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Brouwers, Symen A.; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Mishra, Ramesh C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The influences of schooling and everyday experiences on cognitive development are typically confounded. In the present study, we unraveled the influence of chronological age and years of schooling on the development of general cognitive competency in a two-wave longitudinal design with a three-year interval among 181 Kharwar children in India,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Brouwers, Symen A.; Mishra, Ramesh C.; van de Vijver, Fons J. R. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
The confounding of chronological and educational age and of schooling and socioeconomic status are persistent problems in the study of the cognitive consequences of schooling. The educational system among the Kharwar in India provides a natural experiment to overcome these problems, since it shows neither source of confounding. The sample…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development