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Buckner, Elizabeth; Kim, Paul – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
Prior research suggests that exposure to conflict can negatively impact the development of executive functioning, which in turn can affect academic performance. Recognizing the need to better understand the potentially widespread executive function deficiencies among Palestinian students and to help develop educational resources targeted to youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Environment, Educational Resources, Children
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Shamir, Adina; Mevarech, Zemira R.; Gida, Carmit – Metacognition and Learning, 2009
This study investigated the effectiveness of assessing young children's meta-cognition in different contexts (i.e., individual learning (IL), peer assisted learning (PAL) and self-reports). Additionally, the contributions of declarative and procedural meta-cognition in IL and PAL, TOM and language ability on children's cognitive performance…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Brunner, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study investigates the relationships of domain-general cognitive abilities and domain-specific verbal and mathematical abilities to students' educational characteristics when two theoretically grounded, but competing structural models are applied. In the standard model, a single latent ability causes interindividual differences in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability
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Perleth, Christoph; Heller, Kurt A. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
It is of major importance to use psychological tests and questionnaires that are carefully constructed so that their reliability and validity can be determined in different (sub)cultures (Campbell & Tirri, 2004). However, a necessary prerequisite for this is the development of solid conceptual constructs. Otherwise, the researcher runs into the…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Psychometrics, Models