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Kershner, John R. – 1970
The effects of laterality, movement, and language on children's ability to conserve multiple space relations were investigated in this study of visuo-spatial dimensionality acquisition. The sample for the experiment consisted of 160 first-graders (80 boys, 80 girls) who were matched on intelligence and socioeconomic status. These subjects were…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Language Ability, Lateral Dominance
Download full textKershner, John R. – 1970
One hundred and sixty first grade boys and girls of normal intelligence were tested for ability to conserve multiple space relations. The criterion task apparatus was a wooden T with a model of schoolhouse attached and centered above the point of contact of the horizontal and vertical axis. The T had a track running the length of both its axes…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Grade 1
Peer reviewedKershner, John R. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1972
A study comparing Chicano and Anglo children in spatial and language abilities showed that Chicanos were better in spatial ability and poorer in language comprehension. The findings were interpretated as demonstrating ethnic group differences in information processing strategies and the polarity of verbal and spatial skills in some children. (JB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cultural Background, Educational Research, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedKershner, John R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Ability, Behavior Patterns, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
Peer reviewedKershner, John R. – Journal of Special Education, 1975
Reviewed is research on laterality and its relationship with reading in normal and learning disabled children. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Exceptional Child Research, General Education, Lateral Dominance
Kershner, John R.; Bauer, David H. – 1966
Two divergent approaches to the treatment of children with nonprogressive brain injury (the medical or neuropsychological and the educational or perceptual-motor) are discussed and compared by treatment rationale, models of the perceptual process, etiology, and organization theory. A guide to a comprehensive theory of development, based on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Etiology, Exceptional Child Research, Learning
