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Fang, Fu-Fen Anny – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines teachers' beliefs in the nature and malleability of intelligence, how these beliefs may vary in different academic domains, and whether those beliefs have any significant relationships with teachers' self-efficacy beliefs, epistemological beliefs, and proposed interventions for struggling students. Findings showed that teachers…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Self Efficacy
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Arendasy, Martin E.; Sommer, Markus – Intelligence, 2013
Allowing respondents to retake a cognitive ability test has shown to increase their test scores. Several theoretical models have been proposed to explain this effect, which make distinct assumptions regarding the measurement invariance of psychometric tests across test administration sessions with regard to narrower cognitive abilities and general…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Testing, Repetition, Scores
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Lakin, Joni M.; Gambrell, James L. – Intelligence, 2012
Measures of broad fluid abilities including verbal, quantitative, and figural reasoning are commonly used in the K-12 school context for a variety of purposes. However, differentiation of these domains is difficult for young children (grades K-2) who lack basic linguistic and mathematical literacy. This study examined the latent factor structure…
Descriptors: Evidence, Validity, Item Response Theory, Numeracy