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Peer reviewedBisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Investigates performance of 8, 10, 12 year olds and adults on cognitive tasks in terms of several processing-speed measures, each of which may change independently with age. Results underscore the complexity of developmental change in processing efficiency. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedHale, Sandra; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
In two experiments, children and adults were exposed to four different information-processing tasks to measure speed and variability of performance across different age groups. It was found that 10- and 11-year-olds were about 1.7 and 1.6 times slower than 19-year-olds, differences that were not affected by allowing both groups practice on the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Direct linkKotey, Bernice; Anderson, Philip H. – Industry and Higher Education, 2005
The performance of distant students in a simulation exercise for a Small Business Management (SBM) course was compared with that of internal students and the demographic and psychological variables associated with the performance of each student group were examined. Distant students matched or exceeded the performance of internal students in…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, College Students, Age Differences, Work Experience
