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Hicks, Deborah K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The researcher investigated three types of factors, academic, commitment, and social on college sophomore's decisions to persist at predominately White institutions. The academic factors (academic integration, academic rigor), commitment (goal commitment and institutional commitment) and social factors (social integration and racial climate) were…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Persistence, College Students, Selective Admission
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Examines the effects of integration complexity on the ability of child and adult listeners to integrate information. Increases in complexity adversely affected children's more than adults' resolution integration. The children's integration performance was affected by theme discontinuity and conferential complexity. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues
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Caplan, Scott E.; Greene, John O. – Communication Monographs, 1999
Suggests a "complexity effect" for overall message-production speed (in which undergraduate students exhibited superior performance relative to older adults) and for initial message-production-skills performance and rate of skill acquisition, with these differences not pronounced under complex-task conditions. Finds that older adults' learning…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Communication Research, Communication Skills
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Holzman, Thomas G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The cognitive determinants of number series completion performance were studied by presenting a systematic set of problems to college adults and to average- and high-IQ elementary school children. In each group, a combination of process and content-knowledge variables accounted for more than 70 percent of the variance in solution difficulty.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Epistemology
Morse, David T. – 1994
The relative difficulty of the seven test-wiseness skills measured by the Gibb Experimental Test of Testwiseness, a measure of cue-using skills, was studied. Participants were 243 undergraduates from 3 universities, 79% of whom were Caucasian. Participants reported a mean grade point average of 3.0 on a 4-point scale. Results suggest that some of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cues, Difficulty Level
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Enns, James T.; King, Katherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Experiment 1 suggested that age differences in line-drawing interpretation among subjects between 6 and 24 years reflected changes in short-term memory for features and changes in strategies used to integrate features over space and time. Experiment 2 suggested that older observers were more active in their attempts to interpret drawings and that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Wakefield, John F. – 1991
The hypothesis of positive skew in distributions of response to creative thinking tasks was studied. Data were obtained from examinees' responses to problem-solving tasks in three published studies of creative thinking. Subjects included 23 fifth graders (12 females and 11 males), 29 high school students (10 females and 19 males), and 47 female…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking
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Ackerman, Brian P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
Results of four experiments show that developmental differences in elaborative conceptual processing at acquisition and retrieval contribute independently to developmental increases in recall. Item identification processes for both words and pictures constrain children's elaborative processing. The constraints are time limited. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cues
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Gnepp, Jackie; Chilamkurti, Chinni – Child Development, 1988
When kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, and college students listened to stories and were asked to predict and explain the story character's behavioral or emotional reaction to a new event, the use of personality attributions to predict and explain future reactions increased with age. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior, College Students
Lin, Miao-Hsiang – 1986
Specific questions addressed in this study include how time limits affect a test's construct and predictive validities, how time limits affect an examinee's time allocation and test performance, and whether the assumption about how examinees answer items is valid. Interactions involving an examinee's sex and age are studied. Two parallel forms of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Computer Assisted Testing, Construct Validity, Difficulty Level
Siu, Kwai-Peng – 1986
This in-depth study explores problem areas of Hong Kong secondary and university students in writing narrative and argumentative compositions on two different themes. Subjects were 40 university English majors, 40 form four and 40 form six secondary students. The research indicates that the students at these grade levels experienced difficulty in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level
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Devlin, Marcia – Higher Education Research and Development, 1996
A study of 21 adult and 104 traditional-age undergraduate teacher education students at an Australian university found significant age differences in learning and study strategies, with mature students using more effective strategies more often. Significant correlations were found between students' strategies and their self-reported level of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Age Differences, College Students
Parshall, Cynthia G.; And Others – 1994
Response latency information has been used in the past to provide information for consideration along with response accuracy when obtaining trait level estimates, and more recently, to flag unusual response patterns, to establish appropriate time-to-test limits (Reese, 1993), and to determine predictors of the amount of time needed to administer a…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Age Differences, Classification
Leon, Marjorie Roth; Zawojewski, Judith S. – 1993
The understanding of children and adults regarding four component properties of the arithmetic mean was studied. The component properties were: (1) the mean is a data point between extreme values of a score distribution; (2) the sum of deviations about the mean equals zero; (3) when the mean is calculated, any value of zero must be taken into…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, College Students, Comparative Testing