The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)

The primary aims in this essay are to bring to the notice of educators and research workers three recent documents containing information and recommendations about education in the Northwest Territories of Canada. (Author/RK)

Article examines the impact of a number of socio-political variables and the political environment -- the national political opinion climate -- on the party choice of university students using data from 1,006 questionnaires completed by first year University of New Brunswick students. (Author)

Students' opinions about their college environments are related to objectively determined features of their academic community; also to the actual measured changes which take place in these students on three year courses, shown by examination results, attitude and personality changes, values of a personal, social and religious kind. (Author)

Paper reveals that Canadian children tend to begin their school life at a later age than U.S. or Indian children and that Canadian school participation rates peak a year earlier and thereafter decline more rapidly than U.S. rates. (Author/CB)

The data in this paper indicate that there are greater differences in the attitudes between boys and girls than between racial, ethnic, and social class groups on these variables. (Author)

Study analyzed the results of a college rule regulating the maximum number of units students were allowed to carry and its effect on academic performance. (Author/RK)

Significant differences were found on the aesthetic, intellectual and material values scales but not on the humanitarian, power, and religious scales. (Author)

Results of the study indicate that the Jewish and the white Anglo Saxon Protestant groups, which are over-represented in the upper levels of the Canadian occupational hierarchy, are characterized by a combination of above average achievement orientation and intelligence test scores. (Author)

In his remarkable treatise Reflexes of the Brain (1863) Sechenov developed a detailed program which, properly evaluated, laid the foundation for an objective science of psychology not only in Russia but on a world scale. (Author)

Early readers came from higher socio-economic levels and smaller families, their mothers had more education, they spent more time in sedentary activities, and they received a variety of kinds of help. (Authors)

Results of this study reinforce Kagan's postulation of reflection-impulsivity as a dimension of cognitive style which influences performance on a wide variety of reading-like tasks. (Authors)