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The Relationship between Performance on the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test and Reading Achievement among Adolescents.
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Simpson, Robert G.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between auditory discrimination, as measured by the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test, and reading achievement, as measured by the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests. After controlling for intelligence, there was little more than a random relationship between auditory discrimination and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Correlation
Pre-Test Report on National Head Start Evaluation.
Pierce-Jones, John; And Others – 1967
This pretest report on the National Head Start Evaluation Project gives data on ethnicity and ages of children enrolled in four Head Start centers in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and describes the present status of evaluation at these centers. Completed pretests, proposed evaluation instruments, and available pretest data are presented.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Differences
Pupil and Family Characteristics Related to Reading Achievement
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Callaway, Byron – Education, 1972
Descriptors: Age Differences, Family Characteristics, Grade 4, Grade 7
WISC-R Subscale Patterns of Abilities of Blacks and Whites Matched on Full Scale IQ.
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Reynolds, Cecil R.; Jensen, Arthur R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Groups of 270 Black and 270 White children drawn from the national stratified random sample used in the standardization of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) were matched on age, sex, and WISC-R Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient to facilitate investigation of the patterns of specific cognitive abilities. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Cognitive Ability
An Investigation of the Interrelationships Among Certain Specific Predictor Variables and Two College Bound High School Student Reading Enhancement Classes.
Johnson, Joseph Carlton; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1968
The general reading attainment realized by 44 college-bound senior high school students in a 12-week program was studied. The effects of intelligence, sex, race, high school attended, college board scores, age, college choice, and socioeconomic status on the criterion variables of reading rate, vocabulary, and comprehension were also studied. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Bound Students, Intelligence Differences, Racial Differences
How Specific Are Perceptual Skills? A Cross-Cultural Study of Pattern Reproduction.
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Serpell, Robert – British Journal of Psychology, 1979
British and Zambian children were compared on their abilities to reproduce patterns, from tactile and visual presentations, by modeling, drawing, and gesturing. Age, sex, and intelligence variables were analyzed. Results suggested that cross-cultural differences in these tasks reflect differences in specific perceptual skills rather than broad…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
An Investigation of Performance Differences of Urban High School Students by Race, Sex, and Grade on a Measure of Cultural Homogeneity and Intelligence.
McNiel, Nathaniel Dewey – 1975
The purpose of the study was to compare the performances of black and white urban high school students on a conventional measure of intelligence, the Lorge Thorndike vocabulary test and a culture specific test, the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity. In addition to determining whether or not there were race differences in performance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students
Forward and Backward Digit Span Interaction with Race and IQ: A Longitudinal Developmental Comparison.
Jensen, Arthur R.; Osborne, R. Travis – 1979
Longitudinal data on the auditory forward and backward digit span (FDS and BDS) subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) were obtained at five age levels (between 6 and 13), in samples of white and black children. Factor analysis and analysis of variance of the data were conducted to test 5 hypotheses, related to Jensen's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Goodenough-Harris Test Estimates of Intellectual Maturity of Youths 12-17 Years: Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors.
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Harris, Dale B.; Pinder, Glenn D. – 1977
The results of a modified version of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test are presented in relation to selected demographic and socioeconomic factors as they affect youths aged 12-17 years in the noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Findings are based on data gathered on a sample of 6,768 adolescents who participated in the Health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Correlation
THE RELATIONSHIP OF VOCATIONAL OUTLOOK AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR ADOLESCENT EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
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JONES, PHILIP ROBERT – 1966
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL OUTLOOK OF HIGH SCHOOL EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED (EMH) STUDENTS AND THE TYPE OF HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM IN WHICH THEY WERE ENROLLED. POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EMH STUDENTS' VOCATIONAL OUTLOOK AND AGE, SEX, RACE, INTELLECTUAL LEVEL, READING ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Aspiration, Attitude Measures