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Voyat, Gilbert – Saturday Rev, 1969
From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Environmental Influences

Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1996
Investigated the relative cognitive impacts on black students' attendance at historically black colleges versus predominantly white colleges. Using numerous data types, found that black students attending black colleges did as well or better than their counterparts at the white institutions on standardized measures of writing skills and science…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Blacks
Smith, Janet D.; And Others – 1972
This study investigated incidental learning in middle and lower class black and white preschool children. The study questioned whether (a) preschool children acquire learning incidentally; (b) there was a difference in the quantity of such learning between black and white children; (c) differences in learning was influenced by socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Experimental Programs, Incidental Learning
Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – 1994
This study investigated the relative freshman-year cognitive impacts of five two-year and six four-year colleges and universities drawn from all sections of the United States. The overall sample was 2,685 freshmen students participating in a national longitudinal study and of these the final sample contained 811 students, 280 attending five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests

Curtis, Patricia Gelber
It was hypothesized that there are significant differences in intellectual patterns between black and white populations which can be demonstrated on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). A one-way analysis of variance was performed on the subjects' scores on the WAIS subtests and the Verbal, Peformance and Full Scale IQ using the ethnic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Black Achievement, Cognitive Ability