NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Hindal, Huda; Reid, Norman; Whitehead, Rex – European Journal of Educational Research, 2013
It is well established that girls and boys perform differently in traditional examinations in most countries. This study looks at a sample of 754 school students in Kuwait (aged about 13) and explores how boys and girls differ in the performance in a range of tests related to learner characteristics. The fundamental question is how boys and girls…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics, Learning, Adolescents
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Johnson, Carla J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
Picture naming in children was assessed as a function of two stimulus characteristics: the number of correct names for a picture and the degree to which a picture realistically represents the object. Two experiments showed that children named low-uncertainty objects faster than high-uncertainty objects with multiple correct names. Contains 50…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Foreign Countries
Crowther, E. M. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
Adolescents, ages 11-12 and 13-14, were tested for maturity of judgment about stability-change situations and about time perspective. (CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes