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Direct linkBrunner, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study investigates the relationships of domain-general cognitive abilities and domain-specific verbal and mathematical abilities to students' educational characteristics when two theoretically grounded, but competing structural models are applied. In the standard model, a single latent ability causes interindividual differences in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability
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
Download full textSher, Jonathan P.; Tompkins, Rachel B. – 1976
While the policy of rural school and district consolidation is not totally devoid of worth, its strengths were greatly exaggerated, its weaknesses simply ignored, and its overall merits as a strategy for educational reform grievously oversold. Despite the massive investments made on its behalf, consolidation has not dramatically alleviated the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Consolidated Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Owen, Freya W. – 1969
Research in Palo Alto, California, is attempting to discover distinguishing characteristics of educationally handicapped children (EH) and to clarify the causes of their learning disabilities. 76 EH children and their 76 same sex siblings (EH sibs) were matched with 76 academically successful students (SA) and their same siblings (SA sibs).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Educational Research, Educationally Disadvantaged
Cohen, David K. – 1970
In the most narrow sense, compensatory education has failed; most Title I programs which seek to improve achievement have no discernible effect. This is apparently a result of the fact that the programs seek to provide for disadvantaged students more of the school resources which have never been found to affect the achievement of advantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Planning
Naylor, F. D. – 1972
The principal task of this book was to examine some of the research evidence concerning the relation between personality and school achievement. Its source was the empirical research which bears on this issue rather than the various theories of personality. The reason for this was that the implications of many theories of personality for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Research, High Achievement
