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Peer reviewedYawkey, Thomas Daniels – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1980
Reports the results of a study of five-year-olds, which indicate that social relationships are a facilitator of cognitive learning of reading readiness concepts and imaginativeness. Girls in the experimental treatments significantly outperformed the boys. (JD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Imagination, Interpersonal Relationship, Learning Readiness
Hedges, William D. – 1978
This paper describes the scope and findings of a separately published comprehensive review of research on optimum age of entry into first grade, covering the literature from 1915 to 1976. (Not included was research on reading, the gifted, mentally retarded, and materials in popular journals.) Findings noted the inadequacy of chronological age as a…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement, Child Development
Download full textGarcia-Quintana, Roan; And Others – 1992
The Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB), a school-readiness test, is administered to all public school students at the beginning of Grade 1 in South Carolina. This test is designed to measure a student's readiness to begin the formal school curriculum. The number of beginning first graders tested in 1992 (54,357) represented a decrease from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cognitive Development, Disabilities
