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dlugokinski, Eric; Firestone, Ira J. – Child Development, 1973
This research demonstrates significant but moderate association among 4 methods of measuring other-centeredness, including behavioral, cognitive, valuative, and peer-rating measures. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Grade 5, Grade 8

Wachs, Theodore D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1979
Describes a research project relating physical environment parameters to infants' cognitive-intellectual development in the second year of life. Subjects were 39 infants (25 males, 14 females) who were 11 months of age upon their entrance into the study. (MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Individual Differences, Infants
Fenson, Larry – 1978
Changes in manipulative play with objects were examined in a longitudinal sample of 10 boys and 9 girls tested at ages 9, 13, and 18 months. Stability of individual differences in play was also examined. Each child was observed individually for 7 minutes in a room in which a tea set was the only toy present. Seven types of play behavior were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Individual Differences
Moiduddin, Emily; Aikens, Nikki; Tarullo, Louisa; West, Jerry – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) was first launched in 1997 as a periodic longitudinal study of program performance. Successive nationally representative samples of Head Start children, their families, classrooms, and programs provide descriptive information on the population served; staff qualifications, credentials,…
Descriptors: Family Life, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Inequalities in the Distribution of Education Between Countries, Sexes, Generations and Individuals.
Kotwal, Marilyn – 1974
The distribution of educational experience in countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is presented in this paper. It covers those sections of the population who have terminated formal education. Educational attainment is measured in two ways: in terms of years of educational experience and by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
Law, David J.; And Others – 1993
Information coordination tasks are tasks that require concurrent performance of two or more component tasks and the subsequent coordination of component information. In this experiment, different procedures, componential and contextual, were used to train separate groups of college campus community members (n=35 and n=33) in a coordination task…
Descriptors: Change, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Coordination
Bartley, Diana E. – Foreign Lang Ann, 1970
Findings of a study conducted in the Palo Alto (California) Unified School District. (DS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Rate, Individual Differences, Language Enrollment
Jones, Marshall B. – Psychol Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning Theories, Psychomotor Skills, Tables (Data)
FAUNCE, R.W.; MURTON, BONNIE J. – 1966
IN A STUDY OF FACTORS RELATED TO HIGH AND LOW GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY, SIXTH-GRADE CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS WERE COMPARED WITH CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES OF ABOVE AVERAGE INCOME LIVING IN OUTLYING AREAS. LARGE DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND BETWEEN THESE GROUPS IN--FAMILY INCOME, NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS PER FAMILY, RACE,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advantaged, Attendance, Bibliographies
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1977
Two postsecondary institutions in Michigan, Macomb County Community College and Michigan State University, participated in a two-year program that attempted to implement and evaluate a set of procedures developed for measuring and mapping each student's educational cognitive style and using the resulting maps to individualize educational programs…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods

Gill, C. E.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
This study analyzed the Tertiary Admission Examination and Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test results for 264 pairs of 17-year-old monozygotic and dizygotic twins in Western Australia to determine if examination performance is influenced by environmental or genetic factors. Purely environmental models are rejected as inadequate explanations of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Ability, Environmental Influences
Baker, Patti R.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to investigate the comprehensibility of microcomputer-generated color graphics that are displayed on monochromatic monitors. Subjects were 64 second, third, and fourth graders who were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. Children in the first treatment were asked to identify, on a monochrome monitor, a figure that was…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Children, Cognitive Style, Color

Levine, Tamar; Donitsa-Schmidt, Smadar – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
This experimental study explored whether, and to what extent, differences in gender and experience with word processing affect how students perceive their classroom environment in high school writing classes. Treatment of experimental and control groups is described, and the classroom environment questionnaire for the experimental…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Gender Issues, High School Students

Schonemann, Peter H.; Wang, Ming Mei – Psychometrika, 1972
A model for the analysis of paired comparison data is presented which is metric, mathematically tractable, and has an exact algebraic solution. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Individual Differences, Mathematical Models, Multidimensional Scaling
Canelos, James; And Others – 1985
Research was conducted to further investigate the results of an earlier 1985 study (Dwyer, et al.) which found that a moderately externally-paced microcomputer-based instructional program was more effective than either a self-paced or a more aggressive externally-paced condition. Instructional programs (heart parts and verbal labels) were…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction