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Torppa, Minna; Georgiou, George; Salmi, Paula; Eklund, Kenneth; Lyytinen, Heikki – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
We examined the double-deficit hypothesis in Finnish. One hundred five Finnish children with high familial risk for dyslexia and 90 children with low family risk were followed from the age of 3 1/2 years until Grade 3. Children's phonological awareness, rapid naming speed, text reading, and spelling were assessed. A deficit in rapid automatized…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Reading Rate
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Johnson, E. G.; Lyle, J. G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1973
Concludes that on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children learning of the paired-associates and written speech discriminated between good and poor coders. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Paired Associate Learning
Mumbauer, Corinne C. – 1970
Sixteen (16) male and sixteen (16) female fourth graders from disadvantaged backgrounds and from advantaged backgrounds were given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT), followed by a paired-associates task and a discrimination learning task. Results showed socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students
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Dean, Raymond S.; Kundert, Deborah King – Journal of School Psychology, 1981
Experimental results indicated that verbal intelligence was the best predictor of childrens' overall performance on a paired-associate learning task. Teachers' ratings provided a surprising degree of predictive efficiency for abstract recall which was redundant with verbal intelligence. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Aptitude, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students