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Publikováno v:
Empirica. 46:423-442
Using data on students in grades 5 to 9 in the West Bank, we study the link between poor mental health and cognitive development. After controlling for a wide range of potential confounders in an entropy balancing approach, boys’ cognitive test sco
Publikováno v:
Israel Affairs. 23:883-907
Israel’s consistently low ranking on international achievement tests has been exclusively attributed to insufficient investments in education or inefficient use of available resources. In contrast, this article shows this low ranking to be a true r
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Medical Informatics. 99:60-66
Background The effects of an intervention on patients from populations other than that included in a trial may vary as a result of differences in population features, treatment administration, or general setting. Determining the generalizability of a
Publikováno v:
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 8
The analysis presented in this paper is part of the wider project “Determinants of Cognitive Development in Deprived Environments: Evidence from the West Bank” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant number JU 2769/2. We are gr
Publikováno v:
Journal of Education and Development. 5:102
A necessary, albeit tacit assumption underlying pattern analysis of cognitive profiles is that an examinee’s profile pattern is not affected by the level of precision used in measuring the subtest, index or factor scores. We empirically test the tr
Publikováno v:
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. 34:461-472
Differential granting of extra-examination time (EET) is commonly based on learning disabilities (LD) status: EET is granted to LD examinees and is denied to nondisabled examinees. We argue that LD serves as a proxy for the extent to which time limit
Autor:
Sorel Cahan, Dua Jabr
Publikováno v:
School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 26:441-466
This study contributes to the investigation of the variability of the schooling effect on cognitive development between educational systems and its underlying factors, by focusing on 3 cases differing in the characteristics assumed to affect the magn
Autor:
Dua Jabr, Sorel Cahan
Publikováno v:
International Studies in Sociology of Education. 24:165-188
Schooling is now considered the major factor underlying the development of cognitive abilities. However, most studies on the effect of schooling on cognitive development have been conducted in free and generally supportive western environments. The p
Publikováno v:
International Studies in Sociology of Education. 24:3-23
Relying on the results of the achievement tests in mathematics, science, native language (Hebrew/Arabic) and English, administered to 1430 5th-grade co-educational classes in Israel, this study examines the between-class variability of the within-cla
Autor:
Sorel Cahan, Elad Segev
Publikováno v:
Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice. 21:4-15
Selection to programmes for gifted students in Israel, performed in the second grade, relies on raw ability and achievement test scores, irrespective of age, thereby ignoring the well-known effect of within-grade age differences on test scores. Emplo