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The Australian population now includes many recent immigrants from the Mediterranean region who are noticeably short in stature. The influence on birth weight of maternal racial origin and a number of associations and complications of pregnancy is analysed statistically. Infants born to recent arrivals from Greece and Italy are heavier tha...
This Executive Review is a brief summary of a report of research conducted for the Department of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs between 1997 and 2001.
The results of the study suggest that the systematic use of computer-based learning systems in the form
of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) in primary schools can produce substantial growth i...
This report describes research conducted on the use of computers in Australian classrooms in order to assist the Australian Education Council task force on education and technology in the preparation of policy advice for the Council. The first of eight sections presents the specific aims of the project, which were to: (1) examine the current use of...
While there is much literature suggesting reasons why there are differences between males and females with respect to computer usage, achievement and attitudes, there is a paucity of empirical research. This study discusses a meta-analysis or synthesis of empirical studies and finds small differences in attitude and no differences in achievement be...
. This paper assesses an effort by Torrance and co-workers to introduce a new test which they claim is based on a model of cognitive style, “Your Style of Learning and Thinking”. Specifically investigated are its theoretical bases and psychometric properties. This study found evidence that conflicted with Torrance et al.'s findings. The theoretical...
Four alternative theoretical models of intellectual competence were assessed, using confirmatory factor analysis to account for the correlation patterns derived from Wechsler intelligence tests. It was argued that the difference between the chi-square goodness of fit statistics that are provided when using confirmatory factor analysis gives a measu...
64 children aged 8 yr. were trained on a tactile simultaneous discrimination task. Selective attention was measured in terms of percentage contact time per trial to the relevant dimension. Inter- and intra-couplings per trial were also recorded. Multivariate analyses were carried out to examine the role of component factor scores, obtained from a c...
The finding that teachers appear to dislike high ability divergent children has led some writers to the view that such children may not be evaluated realistically or fairly. A battery of convergent and divergent tests was given to 174 11-year-olds and teachers' ratings of conceptual and mechanical ability were obtained, together with ratings of spe...
264 Illinois high school students studied a passage presenting a Southern interpretation of the Civil War. When general knowledge about the Civil War period was held constant in an analysis of covariance design, the differential effect of attitudinal bias on retention was eliminated. This finding suggests that it is the lack of appropriate subsumin...
An analysis of covariance design was used with undergraduate students in studying the effects of an advance organizer, antecedent learning, and general background knowledge on the learning and retention of 2 unfamiliar sequential passages about endocrinology. The organizer, by providing relevant ideational anchorage, suggestively enhanced the learn...
"Subjects with greater knowledge of Christianity made significantly higher scores on… [a] Buddhism retention test than did subjects with less knowledge of Christianity. This significantly positive relationship between Christianity and Buddhism test scores held up even when the effect of verbal ability was eliminated. Hence the data support the hypo...