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Oakhill, Jane; Yuill, Nicola; Garnham, Alan – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
Working memory predicts children's reading comprehension but it is not clear whether this relation is due to a modality-specific or general working memory. This study, which investigated the relations between children's reading skills and working memory (WM) abilities in 3 modalities, extends previous work by including measures of both reading…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Accuracy
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Holzman, Thomas G.; And Others – 1980
The cognitive determinants of number series completion performance were studied by presenting a systematic set of problems to adults and to children of high and average intelligence, grades 4 and 5. Pearson correlations between these problems and the number series on the Cognitive Abilities Test were .51, .78 and .43 for the average intelligence,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Testing