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Tan, Seref; Pektas, Sami – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
The primary aim of the present study is to examine the measurement invariance of the structural equating model constructed on the numerical and verbal abilities test for sixth grade students across gender, amount of weekly pocket money and students' perceptions of the sufficiency of their pocket money. The secondary aim is to illustrate the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Measurement, Mathematics Tests
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Alpayar, Cagla; Gulleroglu, H. Deniz – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The aim of this research is to determine whether students' test performance and approaches to test questions change based on the type of mathematics questions (visual or verbal) administered to them. This research is based on a mixed-design model. The quantitative data are gathered from 297 seventh grade students, attending seven different middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Evaluation
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Jabr, Dua; Cahan, Sorel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This study contributes to the investigation of the variability of the schooling effect on cognitive development between educational systems and its underlying factors, by focusing on 3 cases differing in the characteristics assumed to affect the magnitude of the schooling effect (the quality of the schooling and students' mean ability to benefit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
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Daley, Samantha G.; Willett, John B.; Fischer, Kurt W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the relationship between emotional responses and reading performance in middle-school students. Although a large number of prior studies have investigated the relationship between emotion and reading, those studies have concentrated primarily on relatively static and distal measures of emotion. In this research, we measured…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Emotional Response, Middle School Students, Grade 7
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Smeding, Annique; Dumas, Florence; Loose, Florence; Régner, Isabelle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
In 2 field experiments, we relied on the very features of real testing situations--where both math and verbal tests are administered--to examine whether order of test administration can, by itself, create vs. alleviate stereotype threat (ST) effects on girls' math performance. We predicted that taking the math test before the verbal test would be…
Descriptors: Testing, Mathematics Tests, Gender Differences, Sex Stereotypes
Wendler, Cathy; Ninneman, Anne; Feigenbaum, Miriam – College Entrance Examination Board, 2001
The SAT is designed to measure the verbal and math reasoning abilities of high school juniors and seniors. These abilities develop over a long period of time and are independent of a particular school curriculum. The performance of seventh and eighth graders on the SAT is amazing, especially when considering their age. Although these students do,…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Cognitive Tests, Test Validity