Sentences with phrase «direct cognitive assessments»

«The development of gender achievement gaps in mathematics and reading during elementary and middle school: examining direct cognitive assessments and teacher ratings»

A direct cognitive assessment was developed for ECLS - B that included items from the ECLS kindergarten cohort and several standardized instruments, such as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test31 and PreLAS 2000,32 to provide data on early reading (basic language and literacy skills, vocabulary, understanding, interpretation), and mathematics skills (number sense, counting, operations, geometry, pattern understanding).

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Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Limitations include no direct assessment of cognitive processes that problem - solving skills training were designed to change and relationship therapy may not have been well or fairly tested.