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SOME DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES BETWEEN SELECTED CANADIAN AND FILIPINO STUDENTS
Abstract:
This study was designed to compare both profiles of mean performance and relationships between performances on cognitive tasks in groups of children and adolescents in Canada and The Philippines with similar educational experience. A battery of eighteen tests, including the Raven's Progressive Matrices (1968), the SRA Primary Mental Abilities Tests, and selected tests from the ETS kit, was used. The samples included 219 students from an urban centre in Ontario, boys, and girls in grades 6 and 8 from private, public, and Catholic schools, and 203 students in Manila from similar sources. The results demonstrate the existence of two general factors of intellectual funotioning, one concerned with conceptual or relational thinking and the other with forming associations. There was a marked difference between the profiles of mean factor scores for the Canadian and Filipino groups, but an equally marked similarity within groups.
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