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Bird, Lisa – 1986
This study examined the effect of three aspects of the testing context--physical privacy, anonymity, and offers of help from a tester--on children's expectations. Performance of 96 11-year-old boys and girls on a pictorial recall memory task in a simulated test was evaluated. The subjects were divided into eight different groups varying on the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Expectation, Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship
Peer reviewedWilkinson, Ian A. G. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1998
Examines school and classroom factors that moderated gender and home language gaps in reading achievement of New Zealand students. Uses data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement survey to examine comprehension and word recognition scores of nine-year-olds. Shows that the magnitude of the gender gap and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Literacy
Peer reviewedNg, Sik Hung; Pipe, Margaret-Ellen; Beath, Bruce; Holton, Derek – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1999
Examines how the wording of statistical problems affects 11-12 year old children's answers. Ninety-six children were given statistical problems on two statistical concepts (base-rate and the law of large numbers). Indicates that the children had a high level of statistical intuition and knew when to reason statistically. (CMK)
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedNairn, Karen – New Zealand Journal of Geography, 1995
Argues that female students remain disproportionately quiet in geography classes because of male bias forms of instruction. Maintains that girls' interest and responses increased when examples and issues involving women were introduced. Includes tabulation and classification of responses by gender, and comments from female students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
