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Cameron, Claire E.; Kim, Helyn; Duncan, Robert J.; Becker, Derek R.; McClelland, Megan M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study of children from two U. S. states examined associations among four cognitive and academic skills: executive function (EF), visuo-motor integration, mathematics assessed with applied problems, and letter-word knowledge. Before (T1) and after (T2) kindergarten, children (N=555) were assessed using the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) EF…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability, Executive Function, Spatial Ability
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Kim, Dongil; Shin, Jaehyun; Tindal, Gerald – Exceptionality, 2013
Identifying proper measure to monitor students' growth and understanding characteristics of growth patterns between different achieving groups are critical issues in terms of screening students at risk. To deal with this, we explored relationships of slopes and intercepts between word identification (ID) and passage reading fluency (reading aloud)…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Fluency, Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Ward-Lonergan, Jeannene M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
Argumentative writing is a challenging communication task that calls upon sophisticated cognitive and linguistic abilities. Pre-adolescents (n = 80; mean age = 11;10; range = 10;6-13:5) were asked to write an argumentative essay on the controversial topic of training animals to perform in circuses. Additionally, they were asked to solve a set of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness, Adolescents, Logical Thinking