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Working Memory And Attention As Predictors Of Processing Speed In Elementary School Students: A Developmental Study, Monih Alshehri
Working Memory And Attention As Predictors Of Processing Speed In Elementary School Students: A Developmental Study, Monih Alshehri
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Problem
Many studies suggest that Processing Speed (PS), Attention, and Working Memory (WM) are major cognitive functions that collaborate to achieve a coherent cognitive system. The aim of the current study was to improve the conception of how these cognitive functions interrelate. The study addressed two main questions: the first, whether PS can be predicted by WM (visual, verbal, and the central executive) and attention of elementary students in first and fifth grade; the second, whether there are gender differences in the rate of change in WM and PS from first to fifth grade.
Method
The participants were taken from …
Development Of An Instrument To Measure Student Attitudes Toward God Using Semantic Differential, Joyce A. Morse
Development Of An Instrument To Measure Student Attitudes Toward God Using Semantic Differential, Joyce A. Morse
Master's Theses
The study had two objectives
(1) to construct an instrument, which would, measure students' attitudes toward God, and
(2) to use the instrument in a small pilot study to test its usefulness.
The instrument was patterned after the format of Osgood's Semantic Differential and each subject was asked to make judgments on five different concepts about God. Each concept was judged by pairs of bipolar adjectives on a rating scale of one to five, with five, being the most-positive.. The thirteen bipolar adjective pairs used in the. final .instrument were used only after two item analyses proved them to be …