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The Human Figure Drawings of Normal Children and Those with Mild Learning Difficulties.
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Cox, Maureen V.; Cotgreave, Samantha – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1996
Compares drawings of English children with mild learning difficulties (M.L.D.) with those of children of the same chronological age and of the same mental age. Reports that drawings by M.L.D. children are similar to those of children at the same mental age. Suggests that M.L.D. children follow a normal rather than deviant developmental pattern.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Figural Problem-Solving Processes of Children with Intellectual Disabilities: Interrogative Strategies and Solution Time Rates.
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Cole, Peter G.; Barrett, Sonya – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1997
An Australian comparison study of 26 children (mean age=10) with mild intellectual disabilities, 26 typical children of approximately the same mental age, and 26 children of approximately the same chronological age, found no mean differences on problem-solving abilities between the children with intellectual disabilities and children of comparable…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
'Working its Magic'? IQ Rise and the Demography of the Classroom.
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McDonald, Geraldine – Oxford Review of Education, 1998
Discusses the reasons for the rise in IQ scores over time. Demonstrates the effect of the decrease in age at levels of schooling on the rise in IQ scores utilizing the data from the 1936 and 1968 standardization of the Otis Intermediate Test of Mental Ability, Form A, in New Zealand. (CMK)
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Educational Change