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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"verbal reasoning"”.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs) and Nonverbal Reasoning Skills
… of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) on non-verbal reasoning skills. This study aimed to assess the relationships between ACEs, non-verbal reasoning skills, and academic achievement.</p>
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The Correlations between Teacher Assessment of Second Graders’ Reading Abilities and Their Performance on Subtests of the Test of Cognitive Skills
… subtests of sequences, memory, analogies, and verbal reasoning. After the data were analyzed, it was found that a strong correlation (r = .5193) existed between the DRP levels, which ultimately represented higher achieving readers, and scores on the verbal reasoning subtest of the Test of …
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Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs
… conscientiousness more influential on numerical reasoning and Emotional Stability on verbal reasoning.
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Neuropsychological assessment of Spanish-speaking populations: translations and norms for three tests
… a test of visuoconstruction, and a test of non-verbal reasoning. Normative data on a sample of 148 Spanish-speaking participants stratified by age and education are provided. Current results reveal age effects on both memory and nonverbal measures. Generally, performance declines with increasing …
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Feuerstein's cognitive training curriculum : effects on the accounting skill proficiency of standard six students (Grade 8)
… posttest measures of Accounting Achievement and Verbal Reasoning were administered to the experimental group and the control group, and the scores were compared. The assumption was that. the experimental groups would perform better than the control group on the criterion measures as a result of …
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The relationship between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition in brain-damaged adults.
… WAIS-R Full Scale IQ; the SBIV Abstract/Visual Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Performance IQ; the SBIV Quantitative Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal Scale IQ; the SBIV Verbal Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal Scale IQ; the SBIV Short-Term Memory Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal …
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Association Between Cognition and Depression: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study of Individuals with Learning Disabilities.
… examined how three cognitive processing factors (verbal & visual reasoning, and attention/working memory) were associated with three depressive symptom factors (disturbances in mood, vegetative, and cognitive functioning). The data for SEM came from a large data set of children with learning …
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Can the catastrophizing interview technique be used to develop understanding of childhood worry?
… of interviewer-assisted measures of worry, verbal reasoning, verbal fluency and tendency to respond in a socially desirable manner, before completing two catastrophizing tasks. Results: Limited evidence was found for a relationship between the catastrophizing interview responses and tendency …
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The Playground of Ideas: A design-based research investigation into dialogic thinking with six- and seven-year-old children in England
… intervention was evaluated. Children took a non-verbal reasoning test individually and groups of three, and their pre- and post-test scores were compared. The group tests were also video recorded and analysed to identify changes in the children’s talk. Children’s reasoning scores in both tests …
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Underlying Cognitive Components and Conceptual Knowledge in Arithmetic
… to learning mathematics in children, but verbal and general intelligence become more important to mathematical performance later on, after these mathematical skills and forms of knowledge have been well learned. In this study it is theorized that spatial abilities are more important than …
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Factors Affecting Resting-State Functional Connectivity Across Three Intrinsically Connected Networks in Traumatic Brain Injury
… of executive functioning, language, memory, reasoning, and intelligence estimates. They also underwent structural MRI, resting-state fMRI, and completed mood symptom questionnaires. A seed-based, resting-state functional connectivity analysis was conducted for the DMN, CEN, and SN. Measures …
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Cognitive Styles and Measured Occupational Preferences of College Freshmen and Sophomores
… average, and the FRTTAB average scores of the Verbal Reasoning Test and the Figure Recognition Test. Harvey's Cognitive Style Factors were measured by means of the Personal Opinion Scale.Occupational preferences were measured by the UNIACT Interet Inventory. Sixty specific research hypotheses …
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Individual differences in learning strategies and external representations
… booklets and then learned, in order to perform verbal recall tasks. It is also about how learning strategies that are not specifically taught and in this thesis called 'representations' are used by individuals to work out problems. There are two parts to the thesis. The first part used wordlists …
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Education for a Changing World: A Mixed-Methods Study of Cognitive Flexibility in Rwandan Primary Schools
… development (executive function), non-verbal reasoning and basic literacy skills. In addition, they were briefly surveyed with age-appropriate tools to ascertain information concerning their home situation and prior schooling experiences. Following conclusion of the pupil assessments, …
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A study of the self concept of the secondary biology teachers and the relationship to student achievement and other teacher characteristics
… November, 1967. The Differential Aptitude Test (Verbal Reasoning + Numerical Ability Portions) was used as a measure of the ability of students and the Processes of Science Test was used as a measure of their achievement. To bring all students' scores to a comparable level of equality and to …
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An exploratory study of the effectiveness of the critical reasoning test battery as a developmental selection tool: a case of a retail company
… results of respondents that completed both the verbal and numerical aptitude tests as part of a selection test battery that is used at a retail company based in the Western Cape. The study harnessed a quantitative research approach that used the secondary data of the company. Various statistical …
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Neurocognitive development in children
… Memory and Sustained Attention, and later verbal reasoning and memory tasks. While some associations aligned with expected patterns, others contradicted the anticipated direction, highlighting issues with the tool’s scoring logic. These findings underscore the need for refinement in …
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Towards establishing the equivalence of the IsiXhosa and English versions of the Woodcok Munoz language survey : an item and construct bias analysis of the verbal analogies scale
… of the WMLS. It was primarily concerned with the Verbal Analogies (VA) scale. Previous research on this scale has demonstrated promising results, but continues to find evidence of some inequivalence. This study aimed to cross-validate previous research on the two language versions of the WMLS and …
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Towards establishing the equivalence of the English version of the verbal analogies scale of the Woodcock Munuz Language Survey across English and Xhosa first language speakers
… of the adapted English version of the Verbal Analogies (VA) subscale of the WMLS across English first-language speakers and Xhosa first-language speakers. This was achieved by utilising differential item functioning (DIF) and construct bias statistical techniques. The Mantel-Haenszel …