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Karla K. McGregor; Ron Pomper; Nichole Eden; Margo Appenzeller; Timothy Arbisi-Kelm; Elaina Polese; Deborah K. Reed – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to infer word class and meaning from text and to document variations by word class (noun, verb, adjective) and modality (listening, reading). We also asked whether the children could integrate global cues across the entire passage as…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Form Classes (Languages)
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Mielicki, Marta K.; Koppel, Rebecca H.; Valencia, Gabriela; Wiley, Jennifer – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Working memory capacity plays a major role in many applied contexts, and it is important to be able to accurately measure this construct. The current studies tested whether the modality of administration of the letter-number sequencing task affects performance on the task. The letter-number sequencing task is a working memory capacity measure…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Adults, Intelligence Tests, Task Analysis
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Andreou, Eleni; Vlachos, Filippos – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2013
The present study examined the link between learning styles and dyslexia in secondary school students, using the Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles model. According to the VAK model, most people possess a dominant or preferred learning style, however some people have a mixed and evenly balanced blend of the three styles. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities
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Hoffman, Jeffrey D.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1996
Compares the predictive and concurrent validities of a learning efficiency test with that of another test. Memory factor scores of the learning efficiency test correlated significantly with the other test's scores, with class grades, and with actual grade-level functioning in reading. The learning efficiency test's validity compares favorably to…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity, Elementary Education
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Madhere, Serge – Journal of Negro Education, 1989
Proposes a structural model of intelligence based on the significant aspects of Blacks' cognitive development. Discusses alternative perspectives on the understanding of macro-level activities, modifications in the general approach to cognitive assessment, and the formulation of pedagogical guidelines. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Education, Blacks, Cognitive Development