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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Thomas, Enlli Mon; Jones, Leah; Guasch, Nestor Vinas; Young, Nia; Hughes, Emma K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for executive function tasks in children of varying levels of language dominance, and examines the contributions of general cognitive knowledge, linguistic abilities, language use and socio-economic level to performance. Welsh-English bilingual and English monolingual…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Socioeconomic Status, Linguistics, Monolingualism
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Bradford, Leslie – Educational Review, 1972
Results of 7200 responses recorded from 180 children indicate that there is a tendency for stimuli which are pigmented in the orange-red arc of the spectrum to have a high noticeability factor. (Author)
Descriptors: Color, Elementary School Students, Investigations, Reading Materials
Buell, Robert R.; And Others – Sci Educ, 1970
Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study to investigate the effects of (1) sex, (2) intelligence, and (3) prior experience in puzzle solving on the categorization skills of youth. A two-dimensional type puzzle involving 4 sorting variables was given to 110 ninth graders. 22 subjects, age from 7 to 18 were given a 3-dimensional…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Color