In this study, secondary school students in India, Scotland, and Africa were tested on learning and recall of material presented in words and/or pictures.

This partial replication study of Kail and Siegel (1977), conducted in Ghana and Scotland among boys and girls with 4 and 7 years of education, found no sex differences in relative recall of letters and positions. Evidence that verbal and spatial information is not always processed independently was found. Limitations of intracultural research as…