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Minato, Saburoh; Yanase, Shyoichi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1984
Investigated whether attitudes toward school mathematics on mathematical achievement differed between low and high intelligence eighth-grade students in three Japanese schools (N=808). Results indicate that the attitude of low intelligence students is more important and it affects more in magnitude than that of high intelligence students. (JN)
Descriptors: Grade 8, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences, Junior High Schools
Garmon, Linda – Science News, 1982
Recent studies are quoted as indicating that Japanese students are superior to American students in actual achievement in mathematics, but there is conflicting evidence as to whether the Japanese are intellectually superior. Several possible reasons for Japanese superiority are suggested, and a need for improvement in America is noted. (MP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lynn, Richard; Hampson, Susan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Data from the Japanese standardization of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale for Intelligence were used to analyze the structure of abilities of Japanese children in terms of the Burt-Vernon hierarchical model of intelligence. It was suggested that the pattern of cognitive strengths and weaknesses that emerged would help clarify a number of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cross Cultural Studies
Willey, Diane L.; And Others – 1993
R. J. Sternberg and others found that the types of behaviors reported by laypersons as characterizing different types of intelligence varied across the different groups tested, and that a person's concept of intelligence affects the manner in which he or she evaluates the intelligence of others. Two experiments by Sternberg et al. were replicated.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, College Students