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Frankenburg, William K.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Evaluates validity of the Denver Developmental Screening Test used for assessing the development of preschoolers. (AJ)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Screening Tests, Test Reliability
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Enright, Robert D.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Study One examined Swedish and American children's understanding of what constitutes fair criteria for the distribution of goods (i.e., distributive justice). Study Two compared children's distributive justice in family and peer contexts, and Study Three attempted a longitudinal assessment of distributive justice reasoning in two different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Sigman, Marian D. – Child Development, 1986
Reviews bases for contemporary discontinuity theories of mental development, presents findings that support alternative proposition of continuity and scrutinizes assessment methods from which these continuity results derive. Also offers several models that help explain the continuity findings, and argues that individual differences in mental…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Continuity
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McGowan, Ronald J.; Johnson, Dale L. – Child Development, 1984
Tests causal models of verbal and performance IQ in 69 Mexican-American children of low socioeconomic status. Years of mother's education were correlated with IQ at 3 years and at 6 to 8 years, but traditional/nontraditional attitudes showed conflicting correlations over time. The adequacy of standarized IQ tests for this population is questioned.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Ethnic Groups