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Yuille, John C.; Pritchard, Suzanne – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 2, Grade 6, Imagery
Peer reviewedWalczyk, Jeffrey J.; Raska, Laura J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992
Thirty-seven second, 41 fourth, and 46 sixth graders were tested on low-level subcomponents of reading efficiency and high-level text comprehension to assess the relationship between the two parameters. High-level comprehension does not depend on efficiency of lexical access processes, but verbal memory span is important in high-level…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Download full textBARRITT, LOREN S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THREE GROUPS OF FIRST- AND SECOND-GRADE CHILDREN, TWO LOWER-CLASS AND ONE MIDDLE-CLASS, WERE ASKED TO LEARN AND RECALL SEQUENCES OF WORDS AT FOUR LEVELS OF CONCEPTUAL DIFFICULTY--NONSENSE SYLLABLES, HIGH FREQUENCY NOUNS, ANOMALOUS SENTENCES, AND MEANINGFUL SENTENCES. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE STUDENTS' VERBAL MEMORY WOULD INCREASE WITH…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data, Grade 1
Barritt, Loren S. – 1968
A total of 102 children (17 from each of the kindergarten, first, and second grades and of two disparate socioeconomic backgrounds) were administered a series of tasks involving verbal recall. The purpose of this testing was to compare the verbal recall ability of children of different ages and socioeconomic status. The verbal material was read to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audiolingual Skills, Aural Learning, Children
