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Hall, Jessica; McGregor, Karla K.; Oleson, Jacob – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether deficits in executive function and lexical-semantic memory compromise the linguistic performance of young adults with specific learning disabilities (LD) enrolled in postsecondary studies. Method: One hundred eighty-five students with LD (n = 53) or normal language development (ND, n =…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Semantics, Memory, Young Adults
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Chan, Julia Y. K.; Bauer, Christopher F. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Students in general chemistry were partitioned into three groups by cluster analysis of six affective characteristics (emotional satisfaction, intellectual accessibility, chemistry self-concept, math self-concept, self-efficacy, and test anxiety). The at-home study strategies for exam preparation and in-class learning strategies differed among the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Chemistry, Affective Behavior
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Kaplan, Danielle E.; An, Heejung – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2005
A study with students enrolled at an urban technical college compared learning of HTML coding across three Web-based program versions. One group received examples providing factual information about the source code (Facts group). A second group was presented with a step-by-step description of the source code (Procedures group). The third group was…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cluster Grouping
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Rosenberg, Seymour; Kim, Moonja Park – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1975
Compares two basic variants of the sorting method: single-sort and multiple sort. The nature of individual differences in sorting, as well as sex differences, were also investigated. Stimulus materials were the 15 mutually exclusive kinship terms selected by Wallace and Atkins (1960). (RC)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, College Students
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Denney, Nancy Wadsworth; Ziobrowski, Martin – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Study suggests that, rather than being less able to organize information, young children simply organize according to different criteria than adults. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, College Students