Adaptation of western measures of cognition for assessing 5-year-old semi-urban Ugandan children

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-30

  Nampijja, M ^a,b   Apule, B ^c   Lule, S ^a   Akurut, H ^a   Muhangi, L ^a   Elliott, A M ^a,d   Alcock, K J ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Entebbe General Hospital   (Uganda)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NURSERY SCHOOL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; APTITUDE TESTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS, NURSERY; SEX FACTORS; TRANSLATING; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 75949107415     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709909X460600     Document Type: Article

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