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Norambuena, Yeniè S.; Riffo, Bernardo E.; Sáez, Katia L. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Despite the important role assigned to analogical reasoning (AR) in cognition and language, the relationship between this ability and language skills in the emergent literacy period has not been sufficiently studied, especially in Spanish speakers. To explore this link, we examined two modalities of AR (verbal and non-verbal) as predictors of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children
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Arancibia, Violeta; Boyanova, Diana; González, Pablo – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The purpose of the study was to reveal the cognitive characteristics of talented children who come from economically vulnerable contexts in Chile. Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) was administered to a sample of 5,160 students who took part in the process of identification of gifted students from the program PENTA UC in Chile between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Individual Characteristics, Academically Gifted, Economically Disadvantaged
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Balladares, Jaime; Marshall, Chloë; Griffiths, Yvonne – First Language, 2016
Sentence repetition and non-word repetition tests are widely used measures of language processing which are sensitive to language ability. Surprisingly little previous work has investigated whether children's socio-economic status (SES) affects their sentence and non-word repetition accuracy. This study investigates sentence and non-word…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Monolingualism