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Moulton, Vanessa; Flouri, Eirini; Joshi, Heather; Sullivan, Alice – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children's aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children's aspirations were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Young Children, Occupational Aspiration
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Potharst, Eva S.; Houtzager, Bregje A.; van Sonderen, Loekie; Tamminga, Pieter; Kok, Joke H.; Last, Bob F.; van Wassenaer, Aleid G. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
Aim: This study investigated prediction of separate cognitive abilities at the age of 5 years by cognitive development at the ages of both 2 and 3 years, and the agreement between these measurements, in very preterm children. Methods: Preterm children (n=102; 44 males; 58 females) with a gestational age less than 30 weeks and/or birthweight less…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Prediction, Premature Infants, Measures (Individuals)
Xu, Heng – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Traditionally, English reading has been thought of as an approach used to acquire language proficiency rather than as a way to understand information and elicit thoughtfulness. Although a positive correlation has been found between motivation and engagement, no study has yet been undertaken to discover the relationship between motivation and…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Ecker, Ullrich K. H.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Oberauer, Klaus; Chee, Abby E. H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Working memory updating (WMU) has been identified as a cognitive function of prime importance for everyday tasks and has also been found to be a significant predictor of higher mental abilities. Yet, little is known about the constituent processes of WMU. We suggest that operations required in a typical WMU task can be decomposed into 3 major…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability
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Chiu, Ming Ming; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin; Mcbride-Chang, Catherine – Learning and Individual Differences, 2007
We examined whether strategies of memorization, transfer through elaboration, and metacognition accounted for reading, science, and mathematics achievement across 34 countries. 158,848 fifteen-year-olds completed a reading literacy test and a questionnaire. Of these students, 88,401 completed a science test, and 88,590 completed a mathematics…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Sciences, Foreign Countries