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Decker, Scott L.; Roberts, Alycia M.; Englund, Julia A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Deficits in rapid automatized naming (RAN) have been found to be a sensitive cognitive marker for children with dyslexia. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding the construct validity and theoretical neuro-cognitive processes involved in RAN. Additionally, most studies investigating RAN include a narrow range of cognitive measures. The…
Descriptors: Naming, Children, Predictor Variables, Cognitive Ability
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Georgiou, George K.; Zhang, Xiao; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
We examined the cross-lagged relations between children's task-avoidant behavior and their performance in reading and spelling in Chinese. Eighty Grade 2 and 103 Grade 4 Mandarin-speaking Taiwanese children were assessed on measures of nonverbal IQ, task value, reading accuracy, fluency, and spelling. A year later, the children were reassessed on…
Descriptors: Children, Child Behavior, Reading, Accuracy
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Aunio, Pirjo; Niemivirta, Markku – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This longitudinal study examined how children's early numeracy assessed in kindergarten predicts their mathematical performance in the first grade, after controlling for the effects of age, gender, and parents' education. The participants were 212 Finnish children (107 girls and 105 boys). At the time of the first assessment (kindergarten), the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Numeracy, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Jordan, Nancy C.; Glutting, Joseph; Ramineni, Chaitanya – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Children's symbolic number sense was examined at the beginning of first grade with a short screen of competencies related to counting, number knowledge, and arithmetic operations. Conventional mathematics achievement was then assessed at the end of both first and third grades. Controlling for age and cognitive abilities (i.e., language, spatial,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 1, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
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Carretero-Dios, Hugo; Macarena, De los Santos-Roig; Buela-Casal, Gualberto – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study is an item analysis of the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20. We examined error scores in the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20 to determine the influence of the difficulty of the test on the assessment of reflection-impulsivity. The sample included 700 participants aged between 6 and 12 years. The results obtained from the corrected…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Individual Differences, Item Analysis, Children
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Campitelli, Guillermo; Gobet, Fernand – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
We investigated the role of practice in the acquisition of chess expertise by submitting a questionnaire to 104 players of different skill levels. Players had to report their chess rating, the number of hours of individual and group practice, their use of different learning resources and activities, and whether they had been trained by a coach.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Longitudinal Studies, Repetition, Questionnaires