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ERIC Number: EJ478626
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-476X
Speed of Accessing Arithmetic Facts in Long-Term Memory: A Comparison of Chinese-American and Anglo-American Children.
Jensen, Arthur R.; Whang, Patricia A.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v19 n1 p1-12 Jan 1994
Results of a comparison of 73 Anglo American and 155 Chinese American (CA) fourth through sixth graders on an intelligence test and measures of the speed and consistency of retrieval of arithmetic facts from long-term memory are consistent with the hypothesis that accessing elementary arithmetic knowledge is more completely automatized in CA students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Addition, Anglo Americans, Arithmetic, Chinese Americans, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Tests, Long Term Memory, Matched Groups, Multiplication, Nonverbal Ability, Nonverbal Tests, Psychometrics, Subtraction
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Automatization; Chronometric Techniques; Raven Progressive Matrices; Retrieval (Memory)