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Thomson, Jennifer Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Student performance in basic math and reading skills in the United States trails behind other developed countries, providing the rationale for more research to determine how performance might be improved. Following evidence to conclude that multilingualism enhances cognitive, neuro-linguistic and meta-linguistic development, it is proposed that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Public Schools, Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning
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Finnila, Katarina; Mahlberg, Nina; Santtila, Pekka; Sandnabba, Kenneth; Niemi, Pekka – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Examined the relative contributions of internal and external sources of variation in children's suggestibility in interrogative situations. Found that internal sources of individual differences in suggestibility measured on a suggestibility test did influence children's answers during an interview, but that external sources or interview styles had…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Spotts, James V.; Mackler, Bernard – 1967
One hundred and thirty-eight undergraudate college males were administered individual and group measures of perceptual field-independence. Most of these subjects were also administered two measures of intelligence and a battery of tests of creativity. Comparisons were made of the creative test performance of three groups of 15 subjects each,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Services. – 1973
This explanatory booklet and the materials that accompany it have two major purposes. The first purpose is to provide local school officials information regarding the performance on basic skills achievement of each student who took the 1972-73 Michigan Educational Assessment Battery. The second purpose is to provide local officials with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis