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Oladimeji, Oyeyemi Omolayo – Online Submission, 2022
Pupils with Intellectual Disability (PwID) experience difficulties with acquisition of social skills. They find it difficult to initiate and maintain positive social relationships. Previous studies focused on enhancing academic skills of PwID with little emphasis on fostering functional skills. Therefore, this study determined the effects of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
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Snyder, Kate E.; Carrig, Madeline M.; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa – Applied Developmental Science, 2021
Insufficient research attention has been focused on the development of academic "under"-achievement and motivational beliefs. A longitudinal, person-centered approach was used to identify latent subgroups of growth in the joint development of teacher-reported underachievement and four motivational beliefs (self-concept, task importance,…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Self Concept
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Miles, Sandra; Fulbrook, Paul; Mainwaring-Mägi, Debra – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
Universal screening of very early school-age children (age 4-7 years) is important for early identification of learning problems that may require enhanced learning opportunity. In this context, use of standardized instruments is critical to obtain valid, reliable, and comparable assessment outcomes. A wide variety of standardized instruments is…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Screening Tests, Young Children, Usability
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Obrzut, John E.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
Studying the validity of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), 53 kindergartners took the DIAL before school entrance and then had their Slosson Intelligence Test scores and Metropolitan Readiness Tests monitored for the school year. Preschool screening programs and their relation to the DIAL are discussed. (CE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Early Childhood Education
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Barclay, A.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Intelligence quotients from the Slosson Intelligence Test for 60 Head Start children drawn from three areas of metropolitan St. Louis showed the group to be heterogeneous with respect to intelligence. No significant differences were associated with sex or race. Consideration of such characteristics is needed in planning school programs. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Heterogeneous Grouping, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences
Pfouts, Jane H. – 1978
The differential impact of birth order and IQ on sibling roles were examined with particular interest focused on achievement outcomes. Subjects were a stratified sample of 37 pairs of near-in-age siblings, all within the normal range in personality and IQ, but differing significantly in scores on the Slosson IQ Test. Results indicate that when the…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Family Influence, Family Relationship, Individual Development
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Bernie, Charmaine; Rodger, Sylvia – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2004
Over the past decade, cognitive approaches with children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have been investigated. Although studies have focused on intervention outcomes, few have documented the components of the approach that support the enhancement of children's performance. This study used systematic observation of videotaped…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Coordination, Motor Development, Developmental Disabilities, Children
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Finch, A. J., Jr.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Children referred for psychological evaluations of completed the Bender-Gestalt and then reproduced designs from memory. Numbers of designs recalled increased with age and Performance Intelligence Quotient. The importance of developmental level in evaluation and establishment of cut-off recall scores for designs were discussed. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences
Gersten, Russell M.; And Others – 1981
This study examines the relationship between IQ and yearly academic growth rate in reading and mathematics for low income children in the primary grades involved in the Direct Instruction Follow Through program (DIFT). Low income children, from 20 communities in the United States, who engaged in the DIFT program between 1969 and 1977 for either 3…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students