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Deygers, Bart; Vanbuel, Marieke – Language Testing, 2022
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) is a widely used test of receptive vocabulary, but no researchers to date have examined the performance of low-educated, low-literate L2 adults, or compared these individuals' performances to their more highly educated peers. In this study, we used many-facet Rasch analysis and mixed-effects linear…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Background, Verbal Ability, Intelligence Tests
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Darko, Christian K.; Vasilakos, Nicholas – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
We use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey to analyse the effect of socioeconomic conditions and gender on the educational performance of young children in India. In particular, we use data for standardised scores on two cognitive tests: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and a maths test. Our results show that there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Socioeconomic Influences, Gender Differences
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Breit, Moritz; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted and Talented International, 2020
The incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities beyond general intelligence has been investigated in studies using hierarchical multiple regression analyzes (HMR). In the present study, we investigated whether the incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities (i.e., verbal, figural, and numerical ability) for the explanation of…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Grades (Scholastic), Ability
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Esposito, Alena G. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Children across the United States are increasingly learning academic content through two-way dual-language education (http://www.cal.org/twi/). This education model provides instruction through two languages in classrooms comprised of approximately equal numbers of native and non-native English speakers. For both language groups, this educational…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingual Education, Language Fluency, Educational Benefits
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Cruickshank Campbell, Hannah; Wilson, Christopher J.; Joshua, Nicki – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Objective: The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence -- Fourth Edition Australian and New Zealand Standardised Edition (WPPSI-IV[superscript A&NZ]) is one of the most widely used intelligence assessments for children aged 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months. Given the impact of clinical and placement decisions that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Young Children, Intelligence Tests, Gifted
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Meesri, Chalermsri; Amornkitpinyo, Pimprapa; Na-soontorn, Taneenart – International Education Studies, 2022
The objectives of this study were to: 1) construct a training course of spiritual leadership for those preparing to become administrators in Catholic schools in Thailand; 2) implement and utilize the training course, and 3) analyze, evaluate and enhance the training course. The sample used in this research was 32 young participants who were…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Foreign Countries
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Nicoladis, Elena; Mimovic, Anastassija – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Bilingual children's dominance can predict a variety of language and cognitive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to test the validity of parents' classifications of 3- to 6-year-old bilingual children's dominance against relative receptive vocabulary scores. In Study 1, the parents' classifications of Mandarin-English bilingual children's…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, French, English (Second Language), English
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Rinne, Luke F.; Ye, Ai; Jordan, Nancy C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The present longitudinal study investigated the developmental trajectories of addition, subtraction, and multiplication fluency; their relationships to general cognitive functions; and potential interrelations between reading fluency and growth in arithmetic fluency for different operations. The central prediction was that measures of arithmetic…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students
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Shechter, Taly; Eden, Sigal; Spektor-Levy, Ornit – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
The objective of this study was to examine in what ways and to what extent preschoolers (5-6 years of age) manifest early Engineering Habits of Mind (EHoM) while engaging in an open-ended problem-solving construction task. The study comprised 228 children (120 boys and 108 girls). The study implemented a quantitative approach. The main research…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Engineering, Problem Solving
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Calderón-Tena, Carlos O.; Styck, Kara M.; Vega, Desireé; Kranzler, John H. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2022
The assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, including students who are learning English as a second language (English language learners, ELL), is a challenge for many school psychologists who have limited training and practice opportunities with students from these populations. According to the National Center for…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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de Mendonça Filho, Euclides José; da Silva, Mônia Aparecida; Koziol, Natalie; Hawley, Leslie; Bandeira, Denise Ruschel – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Substantial evidence endorses the early assessment of cognitive development to promote children's developmental health and well-being. Especially in the Brazilian context, there is a paucity of standardized screening and assessment tools with normative data to evaluate young children. This study provided initial reliability and validity evidence…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Item Analysis, Reliability
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Schroeder, Sascha; Häikiö, Tuomo; Pagán, Ascensión; Dickins, Jonathan H.; Hyönä, Jukka; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In this study, we investigated developmental aspects of eye movements during reading of three languages (English, German, and Finnish) that vary widely in their orthographic complexity and predictability. Grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules are rather complex in English and German but relatively simple in Finnish. Despite their differences in…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, English, German
Gubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del; Peters, Pamela M.; Carpenter, Ashley Y.; Hamilton, Rashea; McCoach, D. Betsy; Puryear, Jeb S.; Langley, Susan Dulong; Long, Daniel – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2020
The underrepresentation of English learners (ELs) in gifted and talented programs is a societal and research problem that merits investigation. Three state departments of education and their state directors of gifted programs supported our access to 16 schools across nine districts. In these three states with gifted identification and programming…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, English Language Learners, Disproportionate Representation
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Short, Elizabeth J.; Schindler, Rachael Cooper; Obeid, Rita; Noeder, Maia M.; Hlavaty, Laura E.; Gross, Susan I.; Lewis, Barbara; Russ, Sandra; Manos, Michael M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Play is a critical aspect of children's development, and researchers have long argued that symbolic deficits in play may be diagnostic of developmental disabilities. This study examined whether deficits in play emerge as a function of developmental disabilities and whether our perceptions of play are colored by differences in language and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Role, Play, Children
Gubbins, E. Jean; Siegle, Del; Peters, Pamela M.; Carpenter, Ashley Y.; Hamilton, Rashea; McCoach, D. Betsy; Puryear, Jeb; Langley, S. D.; Long, D. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The underrepresentation of English learners (ELs) in gifted and talented programs is a societal and research problem that merits investigation. Three state departments of education and their state directors of gifted programs supported our access to 16 schools across nine districts. In these three states with gifted identification and programming…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, English Language Learners, Disproportionate Representation
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