Metalinguistic knowledge and its antecedents were studied in an investigation of performance- and reflective-based knowledge in 27 young children. Piagetian assessment tasks were used to determine cognitive functioning level, and then the children were tested as to knowledge of words' structural and significative features. Results support an…

The cognitive profile is a basic determinant of a student's level of academic achievement and can identify learning defects contributing to low achievement. (Author/JD)

The results of this study provide evidence that schools reduce the variance of learned cognitive skills among children. (MM)

Study suggests that an individual's preferred ways of perceiving and thinking reflect an integral aspect of his personality, and that a full knowledge of the one is essential to a full understanding of the other. (Author)

This procedure for measuring the learning of fifth- and sixth-grade students stressed each child's progress in relation to self as well as to position in the class. (MM)

Two statistical indices of distinctness (intensity) were developed to measure patterns of cognitive preference scores. Results indicated a variety of cognitive preferences, and the distinctness variable was shown to be a useful tool in cognitive preference research. (CJ)

The conclusion of this study involving a treatment group and a group receiving no treatment was that teaching faculty could grow significantly in knowledge of teaching objectives, behaviors, skills, and processes in a training program. (RC)

The effectiveness of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment program (FIE) in improving the cognitive performance of slow learners was tested for one year with low performing vocational high school students in Ontario (Canada). Improved cognitive performance was noted for FIE students, although changes in personality and attitude were substantiated…

Investigated the ability of cognitive, affective, personality, and demographic variables to predict second language acquisition among college students. Student surveys indicated that all four types of variables correlated with foreign language achievement, with a cognitive variable (academic achievement) and an affective variable (foreign language…