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Ergül, Cevriye; Ökcün-Akçamus, Meral Çilem; Akoglu, Gözde; Yalçin, Seher; Tülü, Burcu Kiliç; Kudret, Zeynep Bahap – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
In this study, we aimed to determine the early cognitive and home environmental predictors of reading in Turkish-speaking children. A total of 362 children participated in the study. We monitored the children for 3 years and assessed the home environmental variables and cognitive skills in kindergarten, reading fluency at the end of the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Predictor Variables, Turkish
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Cormier, Damien C.; Bulut, Okan; McGrew, Kevin S.; Frison, Jessica – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Writing is a complex academic task--it involves numerous mental processes. Given the necessity for developing writing skills from elementary to secondary school, this study aimed to investigate the role of broad cognitive abilities derived from the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of intelligence in predicting skills associated with writing…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Writing Skills, Cognitive Tests
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Jung, Jae Yup; Young, Marie – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
A mixed-methods design was employed to identify the cognitive processes that lead to occupational/career indecision for economically disadvantaged adolescents of high intellectual ability. In the first phase, interview data collected from 26 economically disadvantaged intellectually gifted Australian adolescents were analyzed using grounded theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, High School Students, Occupational Aspiration
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Hale, James B.; Fiorello, Catherine A.; Dumont, Ron; Willis, John O.; Rackley, Christopher; Elliott, Colin – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
Concerns about the ability-achievement discrepancy method for specific learning disability (SLD) determination led to alternative research-based methods, such as failure to respond to intervention. Neither of these "regulatory" methods address the "statutory" SLD definition, which explicitly includes a deficit in "basic…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Predictive Validity, Psychology, Mathematics Achievement
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Fass, Michael E.; Tubman, Jonathan G. – Psychology in the Schools, 2002
Examines relations among attachment to parents and peers, cognitive ability, psychosocial functioning variables, and academic achievement in a multiethnic sample of college students. Significant positive correlations were documented between parent and peer attachment and several indices of psychosocial competence. Analyses revealed that indices of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability, College Students
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Grossman, Fred M.; Galvin, Gloria A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1987
Evaluated the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) as a tool for understanding children's learning problems. Analyzed the predictive utility of several WISC-R subtest recategorizations with regard to academic achievement for 105 children referred for psychoeducational evaluation because of classroom learning problems. Stepwise…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students