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The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Description of Home Environmental Factors, Cultural Orientations, and Learning Preferences. Report No. 43.
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Boykin, A. Wade; Bailey, Caryn T. – 2000
This report examines certain home cultural factors, cultural orientations, and learning preferences of African American school children from low-income backgrounds in order to document the relationship of prior cultural socialization experiences to enhanced cognitive, performance, and motivational outcomes. A conceptual basis is suggested for the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
The Role of Cultural Factors in School Relevant Cognitive Functioning: Synthesis of Findings on Cultural Contexts, Cultural Orientations, and Individual Differences. Report No. 42.
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Boykin, A. Wade; Bailey, Caryn T. – 2000
For many African American children from low-income backgrounds, cognitive performance can be enhanced in contexts thematically characterized by aspects of Afro-cultural ethos. This report presents and describes the results of six experimental studies (two studies on each) of three cultural themes of primary interest: movement, communalism, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Culture, Black Students, Cognitive Processes
Use of the K-ABC with Children in Zaire, Africa: An Evaluation of the Sequential-Simultaneous Processing Distinction within an Intercultural Context.
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Giordani, Bruno; And Others – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1996
Evaluation of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) with 130 primary school children in Zaire revealed three findings: (1) the distinction between sequential processing and simultaneous processing was valid; (2) the K-ABC discriminated effectively among grade levels, health and family environment variables, and tribal membership; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Cultural Differences
INFLUENCES OF CULTURAL PATTERNS ON THE THINKING OF CHILDREN IN CERTAIN ETHNIC GROUPS, A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF JEWISH SUB-CULTURE ON THE FIELD-DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE DIMENSION OF COGNITION.
DERSHOWITZ, ZACHARY – 1966
THIS PAPER IS CONCERNED WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHNIC OR OTHER SUBGROUP MEMBERSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL'S COGNITIVE STYLE. THE COGNITIVE STYLE CHOSEN FOR INVESTIGATION HERE IS THAT OF FIELD-DEPENDENCE OR INDEPENDENCE. THE TWO ETHNIC-RELIGIOUS SUBCULTURES INVESTIGATED WERE JEWISH AND WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes