The present study investigated the relationship between age and one type of
environmental factor, namely, type of school (i.e., private vs. public), and the
development of mental planning ability, as measured by the Tower of London (TOL)
test.MethodsParticipants comprised 197 public and 174 private school students, ranging in
age from 4 years and 9 months to 8 years and 6 months. Besides the TOL test,
students were administered Raven's Colored Matrices.ResultsResults confirmed the findings of previous studies that both age and school
type are important predictors of mental planning. Furthermore, results also
suggest that the relationship between type of school and mental planning
ability cannot be accounted for by differences in students' fluid
intelligence.ConclusionIn the present study, the TOL test continued to differentiate public from
private school students, even after we controlled for the effect of
differences on the Raven test.
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