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Distinguishing Patterns for Mexican-American Children on the WISC-R.

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Dean, Raymond S. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1979

Matched samples of Mexican American and Anglo children with learning difficulty referrals were compared on WISC-R subtest performance. The Mexican Americans scored significantly lower on Similarities, Arithmetic, and Picture Completion. Their Verbal and Performance IQ score discrepancies suggest that the major educational problem of this group is…

Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns

Comprehending Premises: Effects of Negations and Training among Anglos and Hispanics.

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Mestre, Jose; And Others – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1988

Examines comprehension of sentences with multiple negations among 71 monolingual Anglo and bilingual Hispanic undergraduate science and engineering majors. Finds that both groups misused rules of logic and natural discourse; similar groups benefited from training to eliminate inappropriate reasoning strategies, but only Anglos retained the…

Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Students, Error Patterns, Hispanic Americans