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Peer reviewedShatil, Evelyn; Share, David L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Evaluated hypothesis that cognitive antecedents of word recognition are domain-specific and unrelated to higher-order domain-general cognitive abilities in a longitudinal study of Hebrew-speaking children. Found that kindergarten domain-specific measures accounted for 33 percent of variance in Grade 1 word recognition, even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMilgram, Roberta M.; Hong, Eunsook – Roeper Review, 1993
Results of an 18-year longitudinal study of 48 Israeli high school students who were seniors at the study's start suggest that measures of creative thinking and creative leisure activities were more important than school-oriented predictors of intelligence and school grades in predicting creative attainments in adults. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Peer reviewedZeidner, Moshe – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1985
Two experiments were conducted in Israeli elementary schools to test the assumption that disadvantaged students perform poorly on ability tests because of situational factors related to the testing process. Testing atmosphere and examiner status were examined with respect to verbal and nonverbal ability and intelligence. The assumption was not…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Examiners
