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Direct linkSparks, Richard L. – Language Learning, 2012
In this article, I describe studies conducted over 25 years with secondary and post-secondary L2 learners in the United States. The evidence from these studies shows that there are important connections between students' early L1 skills and their L2 aptitude and L2 proficiency and that individual differences in students' L1 skills in elementary…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Students, Individual Differences, Language Research
Laski, Elida V.; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 2007
This study examined the generality of the logarithmic to linear transition in children's representations of numerical magnitudes and the role of subjective categorization of numbers in the acquisition of more advanced understanding. Experiment 1 (49 girls and 41 boys, ages 5-8 years) suggested parallel transitions from kindergarten to second grade…
Descriptors: Females, Individual Differences, Classification, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedDunn, Rita; And Others – Clearing House, 1979
The Learning Style Inventory (LSI) measures an individual student's learning style and preference for physical learning environment. LSI scores for 321 students in grades 3, 6, and 7 were correlated to their self-concept scores. Eight LSI variables discriminated significantly between subjects with high and low self-concepts. (SJL)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Correlation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedWard, William C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Fourth through sixth grade children were given two types of creativity measures--divergent measures, naming all the ideas he could meeting a simple requirement, and convergent measures, adaptation of Mednick's Remote Associates Test, finding one word associatively related to each of three others. The measures shared little variance. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Association (Psychology), Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Peer reviewedCardon, Lon R.; And Others – Intelligence, 1990
Genetic and environmental etiologies of individual differences in tests of intelligence and school achievement were investigated in a study from the Colorado Adoption Project. A multivariate conditional path model was fitted to general cognitive ability and reading performance data from 119 adoptive and 120 nonadoptive families. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability
Download full textNichols, Robert C. – 1976
The New York State Education Department conducts a Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP) in which each year all third, sixth, and ninth grade students in the state are given a series of achievement tests in reading and mathematics. The data accumulated by the department includes achievement test scores, teacher characteristics, building and curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Correlation
