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Stumpf, Heinrich – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1998
A study of 1,283 academically talented junior high students found that males had higher scores on three of the four subtests of the Spatial Test Battery of the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth. Females scored higher on the visual memory test and spent more time on the tests. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Junior High Schools, Memory
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Signorella, Margaret L. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1992
College students whose judgments of others were more gender stereotyped recalled more traditional pictures portraying men in masculine activities and were more likely to cluster recalled items in gender categories than students with less stereotyped judgments. Results with 100 males and 74 females support J. T. Spence's gender identity theory.…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Males
Gildemeister, Joan E.; Friedman, Philip – 1980
Reading achievement tests have been used to identify deficiencies in inner city, poor readers; however, they often do not provide information about encoding strategies which lead some children to academic success. Immediate memory and visual analytic differences which contribute to the success of skilled readers are isolated in this study using 20…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Memory