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van Zundert, Marjo J.; Sluijsmans, Dominique M. A.; Konings, Karen D.; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Educational Psychology, 2012
In this study the relationship between domain-specific skills and peer assessment skills as a function of task complexity is investigated. We hypothesised that peer assessment skills were superposed on domain-specific skills and will therefore suffer more when higher cognitive load is induced by increased task complexity. In a mixed factorial…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Student Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students
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Koppenol-Gonzalez, Gabriela V.; Bouwmeester, Samantha; Vermunt, Jeroen K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Working memory (WM) processing in children has been studied with different approaches, focusing on either the organizational structure of WM processing during development (factor analytic) or the influence of different task conditions on WM processing (experimental). The current study combined both approaches, aiming to distinguish verbal and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Developmental Stages
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van Dulmen, Manfred H. M.; Mata, Andrea D.; Klipfel, Katherine M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The assessment of verbal aggression in adolescent and young adult dating relationships has largely relied on self-report methodology. We investigated whether information on verbal aggression derived from an observational assessment would enhance the prediction of romantic relationship satisfaction and dissolution in a sample of young adult dating…
Descriptors: Aggression, Young Adults, Dating (Social), Program Effectiveness
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Moran, Catherine A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between…
Descriptors: Age, Grammar, Program Effectiveness, Language Skills