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Singh, Michael – Australian Journal of Education, 2010
Ignorance is a potentially powerful conceptual tool for analyses of pedagogies for internationalising Australian education. Ignorance typically has a negative connotation but, in this paper, knowledge and ignorance are seen as intermingling productively, with ignorance stimulating the production of knowledge, in turn creating new fields of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Scholarship
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Ousley, Opal Y.; Mesibov, Gary B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
Interviews with 21 high-functioning adults with autism and 20 mildly to moderately mentally retarded adults without autism indicated that the mentally retarded group had more sexual experiences, with no intergroup differences in sexual knowledge or interest. Intelligence quotient was positively correlated with knowledge scores and males had…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Autism, Comparative Analysis
Parks-Trusz, Sandra L.; Trusz, Andrew R. – Texas Tech Journal of Education, 1981
Models which describe assumptions concerning the distribution of intellectual capacity are: (1) the differential distribution model, encompassing theories that consider differences in intelligence genetic; (2) the normal distribution model; and (3) the evenly distributed model, focusing on the similarity of intellectual potentials within the human…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Competition, Curriculum Development
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Numminen, H.; Service, E.; Ruoppila, I. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2002
A study explored working memory (WM) capacity, WM task requirements, as well as effects between WM, skills, knowledge base, and intelligence in adults with mental retardation and children aged 3-6 years. Adults were better on measures reflecting skills and knowledge base. Children performed better in phonological and visuo-spatial WM tasks.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Tirri, Kirsi; Tallent-Runnels, Mary K.; Nokelainen, Petri – British Journal of Religious Education, 2005
This study investigated differences across four countries in the amount and nature of above-average ability and average-ability pre-adolescents' everyday life, scientific, moral, spiritual and religious questions. The participants (N = 975) of this study were fifth-and sixth-grade elementary school students from different schools in Finland (N =…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Preadolescents