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Naruto University of Education, Japan; Nagasaki Internatinal University, Japan; Hiroshima
University, Japan
Fifty-six right-handed young children and adults were asked to draw a fish in the side-view by
each hand in order to study their directionality trends in drawing. The analysis of the directionality
of the fish-drawing showed that young children produced more fish-drawings facing to the right
than adults when they performed with right-hand. However, the result did not revealed the
significant effect of the age in the left-hand drawing. In drawing with left hand, it was suggested
that even adult subjects tended to make fish-drawings facing to right.
2098.4 Physical development status of Indian rural children and influencing factors, Anju
Manocha 1 , Tej Verma 2 , Pushpa Khadi 1 , Shobha Nandwana 1 , K Mayuri 3 , 1 COHS, CCSHAU,
HISAR, India; 2 ICAR, New Delhi, India; 3 Shigakukan University, Japan
Physical development status of Indian rural children and influencing factors Verma, T., Manocha,
A., Khadi, P. B., Nandwana, S., Mayuri, K., Jaswal, S and Ahuja, A. The physical growth of rural
boys and girls of 6-18/20 yrs. was studied by assessing their weights and heights. The results
revealed that the weight and height of children increased with the advancement in age up to 19 yrs.
in boys and 17 yrs. in girls. However the weights and heights of rural children of all the six states
were below the 50th percentile of the NCHS standards. The extent of influence brought about by
the environmental factors was to the extent of 10-20 percent.
2098.5 The significance of learning potential assessment in south africa, Karl Anthony Heslop,
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
The aim of this theoretical paper is to report on the utilization of learning potential assessment in
South African educational settings as opposed to relying on traditional IQ tests. Considerable
variation in educational quality and in the availability of opportunities for cognitive enrichment is
a legacy of South Africa’s past. Since learning potential scores do not correlate with
socio-economic class, it offers an alternative to conventional testing to facilitate fairer selection
processes in contexts where some candidates are from disadvantaged backgrounds, and reports on
progress in academic institutions in addressing the inadequacies of past learning of disadvantaged.
2098.6 Assessment of voluntary activity in Mexican rural and urban pre-scholars, Yulia
Solovieva, Luis Quintanar, Emelia Lazaro, University of Puebla, Mexico
According to the theory of cultural development the voluntary activity is the basic psychological
formation of pre-school age. The grade of development of voluntary activity can help to predict
the exit in school learning. The aim of the present study was to characterize voluntary activity in
Mexican pre-scholars of rural and urban background. The Scheme of assessment included special
tasks for voluntary actions, voluntary speech and voluntary movements and was applied to 40
children from rural and urban groups. The results show significant differences between
performance in groups. The conclusions stress the necessity of development of voluntary activity
in pre-scholars.
2098.7 Philosphy of knowledge, Denise Land, University of Phoenix, USA
The greatest source of wealth is something specifically human: knowledge. Only knowledge
allows us to achieve these two goals (Drucker in Houtzagers, 1999). Descartes is known for trying
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