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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"WJ"”.
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HUMAN WHARTON'S JELLY MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (WJ-MSCs): CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES
… MSCs named Wharton jelly mesenchymal stem cells (WJ-MSCs). WJ-MSCs are multipotent stem cells with many advantages as a potential source of MSCs; the tissue is readily available, cells are easy to grow in culture, they can be cryopreserved, and have great expansion capacity in vitro. In this …
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A concurrent validity study comparing executive functioning of the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability and the NEPSY
… Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) executive functioning tests and the NEPSY (Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 1998) executive functioning tests within the same population sample of nondisabled children. The tests of the WJ III COG that are …
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A concurrent validity study comparing executive functioning of the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability and the NEPSY
… Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) executive functioning tests and the NEPSY (Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 1998) executive functioning tests within the same population sample of nondisabled children. The tests of the WJ III COG that are …
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A Comparison of Two Measures of Oral Reading Fluency
… Tests of Achievement- Third Edition (WJ-III). Only one previous study had examined the validity of the Reading Fluency test from the WJ-III by comparing it to established CBM measures of reading fluency for a sample of third-grade students. The resulting correlation between the two …
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A joint confirmatory factor analysis of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, second edition, and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, third edition, with preschool children
… Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition (WJ-III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) with a sample of 200 preschool children, ranging in age from 4 years, 0 months to 5 years, 1 1 months, and attending preschool and daycare programs in and around a Midwestern city. This study attempted …
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The Relationship Between the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition and the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities in a Clinically Referred Pediatric Population
… III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III COG) to provide evidence for the utility of using the WISC-IV in assessing cognitive abilities according to the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. The study was conducted using archival data consisting of 92 children and adolescents between …
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Home Literacy Factors Affecting Emergent Literacy Skills
… selected subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III). The present study used archival data to examine the home literacy habits of a sample of parents and preschool children ages 3-5 years (range in months= 36-67) from a private and a public preschool with a combination of high- and low-income …
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Comparisons of aptitude and achievement patterns of Asian-American and Caucasian-American students.
… Psychoeducational Battery-Revised (WJ-R) (1989) were matched on the basis of school, gender, and number of years of school attendance. Broad Cognitive Ability scores of the WJ-R as well as scores from the WJ-R Tests of Achievement were then used to compare aptitude and achievement of …
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Correlations and Predictive Ability of Oral Reading Fluency and the Wilson Reading System on End of Year Assessments
… Johnson Tests of Achievement - Third Edition (WJ-III) Broad and Brief Reading domains. The current study investigated archival data of 51 students, grades four through eight, enrolled in a small, private school for students with learning disabilities during the 2008-2009 school year. Oral …
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An empirical typology of cognitive abilities in high achieving third grade students
… Tests of Cognitive Ability, 3rd edition (WJ-III). Students were referred for further testing based on their scores on the Indiana State Test of Educational Progress (the ISTEP+). Students were included in the study if they scored at or above the 90th percentile on the ISTEP+ Cognitive …
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Examining the cultural loading and linguistic demand of three neuropsychological assessment batteries for children in a mixed clinical population
… Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Normative Update (WJ III COG NU; McGrew & Woodcock, 2001); the NEPSY-II: A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment (NEPSY-II; Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 2007); and the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS; Delis, Kaplan, & Kramer, 2001a). A multivariate …
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The impact of chronic victimization on high school academic achievement by attachment status
… on Passage Comprehension and Applied Math on the WJ Achievement) and to determine if the effects of these variables on reading and math achievement vary between securely and ambivalently attached children. After controlling for intellectual ability, direct effects were found on academic …
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Effects of the Interactive Metronome® on older adults : does use improve cognitive and motor abilities?
… assessments included the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III) and the d2 Test of Attention (d2). Motor assessments included the Four Step Square Test (FSST) and the Nine Hole Peg Test (NHPT). The participants' scoring and progress within the IM program was also tracked and examined for trends and …
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Effects of Family Involvement: Early Childhood Cognitive Outcomes Using Longitudinal Growth Curve Models
… cognitive scores as measured by the PPVT-III and WJ-III Achievement. Parenting styles acted as a mediator between involvement and cognitive outcomes. Implications for policy and practice related to transition services are discussed.
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Neuropsychological Functioning and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow: A Comparison Between Aged Normals and Alzheimer’s Type Dementia.
… parameters fi (p = .003), ISI (p = .005), and wj (p = .008) but not for Phi. Concordancebetween Luria-Nebraska localization scales and rCBF detectors showed the greatest agreement between the two variables in localizing brain dysfunction throughout the posterior left cerebral hemisphere.Results …
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An Analysis of Cattell-Horn-Carroll Cognitive Abilities Relating to Academic Achievement among Students in Grades First through Fifth
… III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III COG) and the Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz: Pruebas de habilidades cognitivas (Batería III COG) and Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement (WJ III ACH) and Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz: Pruebas de aprovechamiento (Batería III ACH) were analyzed …
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How can I improve my life-affirming, need-fulfilling, and performance enhancing capacity to understand and model the meaning of educational quality?
Infectious pessimism, widespread apathy, and volatile relationships: these describe the high school culture I unwittingly adopted as a first-time principal at Potsdam High School in a rural suburban town in New England. I conducted a three-year intensive self-study and participatory action research …
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Oystercatchers and cockles : a predatory-prey study
Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus and cockles Cerastoderma edule were studied with the aim of understanding the behaviour of predators and the consequences which this behaviour has on the cockle population. At Traeth Melynog, Anglesey, the cockle density declined down the shore and those at the …
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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Classroom Quality and Child Language and Academic Outcomes in a State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program
… language outcomes and the Woodcock-Johnson-III (WJ-III-Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) measured child pre-academic achievement. Because children were nested within classrooms, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM, Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002) was the analytic framework used to examine the relationship …
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