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The Use of a Performance Assessment for Identifying Gifted Lebanese Students: Is DISCOVER Effective?
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Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance- based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from Grades 3-5 at two private schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Students were administered DISCOVER and the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Private Schools, Academically Gifted, Performance Based Assessment
Criterion-Related Validity of Raven's Progressive Matrices with Deaf Residential School Students.
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Blennerhassett, Lynne; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Investigation of criterion-related validity of test scores of 107 deaf residential adolescents found concurrent validity between the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and the Performance IQ of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, using both hearing and deaf norms. Predictive validity was supported by correlations between the SPM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Concurrent Validity
Improving Validity by Testing for Competence: Refinement of a Paradigm and Its Application to the Hearing-Impaired.
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Dillon, Ronna F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
The Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices and a Piagetian battery were administered to a sample of hearing-impaired elementary school children under six different conditions. Results indicated that scores varied as a function of the degree and type of feedback or elaboration. (JKS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Stages, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
The Relationship of Cognitive Style Variables to Optimal Test Performance in Hearing-Impaired Children.
Dillon, Ronna F. – 1979
The relationship of cognitive style variables and conditions of test administration was investigated in cognitive assessments of hearing-impaired children, aged six through eleven. One hundred-twenty children were given the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) and a Piagetian battery under one of six conditions of testing: (1) standard; (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education