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…

Mathematical learning difficulties can originate at an early age. However, research on young children's math development, especially those who are at risk, is in its early stages. The current study is the first to examine the effects of an activity with an educational e-book on emergent math with 52 preschoolers at risk for learning disability…

Examines the order of emergence of the concepts "in,""on," and "under" in a nonverbal cognitive task and in linguistic comprehension and production tasks. Subjects were 75 Israeli children between 14 and 30 months of age. In general, cognitive tasks were solved first, language comprehension tasks second, and language…

A feedback inventory was administered to 259 seventh graders in Israel immediately following standardized group scholastic ability testing procedures to determine the subjects' attitudes toward the procedures. Few meaningful differences appeared across sociocultural or gender groups. Test attitudes did correlate with scores. (TJH)

The multifaceted structure of sentence-completion test items was analyzed to explain verbal comprehension. The three stimulus constituents were technical, logical-semantic, and associative-contextual. Guttman's facet and order theories and smallest space analysis were used. Results confirmed the multiple skills involved in solving these tasks.…

This book is intended primarily for persons about to take the university psychometric entrance examination in Israel, particularly those who want more information than is provided in the standard explanation booklets. The book can also be used by candidates for employment in the public or private sector who are required to take psychological…