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Direct linkViterbori, Paola; Traverso, Laura; Usai, M. Carmen – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
This study investigated the roles of different executive function (EF) components (inhibition, shifting, and working memory) in 2-step arithmetic word problem solving. A sample of 139 children aged 8 years old and regularly attending the 3rd grade of primary school were tested on 6 EF tasks measuring different EF components, a reading task and a…
Descriptors: Role, Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Arithmetic
Peer reviewedDillon, Ronna F.; Donow, Carolyn – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
College undergraduates were given Zelniker and Jeffrey's modification of the Matching Familiar Figures Test to assess its psychometric credibility and construct validity for adult problem solvers. The modified test has improved internal consistency and stability over the original. The construct's possible correlation with general problem solving…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Test Reliability
Peer reviewedDillon, Ronna F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests
Schroeder, David H. – 1989
This study assessed the bipolarity of cognitive style for 970 clients of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, a vocational guidance service. The 462 male and 508 female examinees were aged 14 to 65 years, with a median age of 24 years. Three cognitive style tests were investigated: (1) the Kagan Matching Familiar Figures Test (KMFFT); (2) the…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cognitive Style
