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Peer reviewedKnafle, June D.; Legenza, Alice – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
Results varied as a function of : (1) type of task (transfer, paired associate, or visual discrimination); (2) student age (kindergarten, first grade, or college); (3) stimuli size; and (4) number of response indicators. Research findings cannot be generalized from artificial orthographies to the English alphabet or from various aged subjects to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet), Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedWaters, Harriet Salatas; Schreiber, Linda L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Examined sex differences in eighth and tenth graders' and college students' use of elaboration in paired associate learning. Findings indicate that, as males and females became more proficient strategy users, sex differences diminished under more favorable task conditions that encouraged strategy use but remained constant under less favorable…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education
