Short-term memory as an additional predictor of school achievement for immigrant children?

Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-213

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a   Resing, Wilma ^a   Tolboom, Elsbeth ^b   Bleichrodt, Nico ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immigrant children; School achievement; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEASUREMENT; META ANALYSIS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEGRO; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 1242276268     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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