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Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Children whose parents are more highly educated enjoy greater age-linked gains in cognitive abilities and academic achievement. Different researchers have typically focused on different outcomes, and the extent to which parental education relates to multiple child outcomes via a single developmental pathway has received little empirical attention.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
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Rast, Philippe; Zimprich, Daniel – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study aimed at modeling individual and average non-linear trajectories of positional learning using a structured latent growth curve approach. The model is based on an exponential function which encompasses three parameters: Initial performance, learning rate, and asymptotic performance. These learning parameters were compared in a positional…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mathematics, Individual Differences, Models