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Download full textLah, Meta – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016
The article introduces learners between two age groups: childhood and adulthood. The aim of the author is to analyse the writing skills of French primary school learners--mostly 14 years old--and to determine which descriptors could be used to assess them. The article begins with a presentation of the learners' characteristics and continues with a…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, French, Competition
Direct linkSmith, Jonathan – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
This paper investigates how individuals' performances of a cognitive task
in a high-pressure competition are affected by their peers' performances.
To do so, I use novel data from the National Spelling Bee, in which students
attempt to spell words correctly in a tournament setting. Across OLS
and instrumental variables approaches, I…
Descriptors: Spelling, Competition, Stress Variables, Cognitive Processes
