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Braverman, Marc; Lehman, Rosemary – 1981
A study of the cognitive aspects of children's television watching addressed the following questions: To what degree is processing capability mediated by one's attentional set, as opposed to skills that one brings to the viewing situation? If attention is a significant mediating factor, is this true across various kinds of information one can…
Descriptors: Attention, Characterization, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Taylor, Thomasine; And Others – 1975
A total of 78 Mexican-American and 14 Anglo-American children participated in a study to determine the relationship of oral English proficiency, social acceptance, and academic achievement among fifth grade students. The students were administered measures of phonology and verbal expression. Scores from a standardized achievement test were used to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Download full textNelson-Le Gall, Sharon; And Others – 1989
Two experiments investigated the role of children's assessments of their performance on their decisions to seek help and their preferences for different types of assistance. Blocked into low and high verbal skill groups, participants in study 1 were 84 middle-class third- and fifth-grade elementary school students. Subjects performed a multi-trial…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Schunk, Dale H.; Rice, Jo Mary – 1993
The effects of strategy fading and progress feedback on children's achievement outcomes were investigated. Forty-four fifth graders with reading-skills deficiencies from 2 elementary schools received instruction on locating main ideas. Children were taught and verbalized a strategy, and some faded the verbalizations to inner speech. Half of the…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Feedback, Grade 5
Hsu, Chen-chin – 1987
Drawing on a cross-national study of children's reading, a study examined the correlates of reading success and failure in Taiwan. Subjects, 240 randomly selected Taipei fifth graders, were administered a reading test, cognitive test, and mathematics achievement test. A structured interview with each child's mother and classroom behavior…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Elementary Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries
Wildstein, Arlene B.; And Others – 1982
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are differences between males and females on locus of control, if experimental instructions differentially affect the performance of internals as opposed to externals, and if locus of control differentially influences performance on distinct types of aptitude tests. The Children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance
Enright, Robert D.; And Others – 1980
A paired-comparisons measure of distributive justice development, the Distributive Justice Scale (DJS), was developed and validated in four studies. Pictures were drawn to represent the different stages of distributive justice for a given dilemma and the DJS was scored by selecting the child's preferred stage via the picture comparisons for each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Correlation, Cultural Differences
