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This accounts for the research found on Mandarin-speaking children outperforming Cantonese-speaking children in relation to the size of their vocabulary.

Though comparatively delayed in their L2 as shown by performance on picture vocabulary tests, children who were bilingual in Italian and Slovenian (with Slovenian as the dominant language L1 spoken at home) generally outperformed those who were either monolingual in Italian or Slovenian in detecting utterances that violate conversational maxims with older children outperforming younger ones.

This resulted in a group difference in the older age category, with full-term children outperforming preterm children (p =.001).

Countries whose children outperform ours on international tests have longer school years, the argument goes, and therefore our children should spend more time in school.

Policy makers would err if they concluded that a school filled with working-class children outperformed one with poor children simply because it had higher scores, even though pupils in both places got subsidized lunches.

The study published in the 'Journal of Experimental Child Psychology' by researchers at Canada's Concordia University, San Diego State University, and the University of Geneva in Switzerland found that bilingual children outperformed monolinguals on conflict tasks.

That research, done in the 1980s, concluded that students in small classes (13 to 17 children) outperformed those in regular classrooms (22 to 25) in kindergarten to third grades.

MANCOVA's show gifted children outperformed other children on the executive but not the non-executive tests.

Middle-class children outperformed working-class children on all measures, and bilingual children obtained lower scores than monolingual children on language tests but higher scores than monolingual children on the executive functioning tasks.

Another concern is whether the children outperformed on the social tasks not because the tasks were social but because they were inherently more difficult and abstract than the physical challenges, says Daniel Povinelli, director of the Cognitive Evolution Group at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

"For our children in the fifth grade last year, Hispanic children outperformed all other children," said Bruce Douglas, executive director of CREC.