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Tamra Stambaugh; Lindsay Ellis Lee; Matthew Makel; Scott Peters; Kiana R. Johnson – Gifted Child Today, 2024
The ability to effectively identify students for advanced learning opportunities has been an ongoing issue within the field of gifted education. Common criteria to guide the design and evaluation of identification systems has been essentially non-existent. In this article we provide a practical guide for evaluating and reflecting on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Academically Gifted
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Yusra Zaki Aboud – Gifted and Talented International, 2023
The current study investigates the reliability and validity of a Saudi-translated version of the GRS-S on a sample of 1,200 Saudi elementary and middle school students. Results showed that the reliability and validity of all six of the GRS-P subscales were high. The results revealed that there were no differences between males and females in all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Academically Gifted
Alodat, Ali M.; Zumberg, Marshall F. – Online Submission, 2018
This study aimed to standardize the Cognitive Abilities Screening Test (CogAT) Form Seven for identifying gifted and talented children ages five-eight years in Jordan. A sample of 280 students was randomly chosen from public and private elementary schools and kindergartens in the city of Amman, the capital city of Jordan, and used teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Gifted
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Lakin, Joni M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
Verbal and quantitative reasoning tests provide valuable information about cognitive abilities that are important to academic success. Information about these abilities may be particularly valuable to teachers of students who are English-language learners (ELL), because leveraging reasoning skills to support comprehension is a critical aptitude…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Ability, Culture Fair Tests, Test Validity
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Lakin, Joni M.; Lai, Emily R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
For educators seeking to differentiate instruction, cognitive ability tests sampling multiple content domains, including verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal reasoning, provide superior information about student strengths and weaknesses compared with unidimensional reasoning measures. However, these ability tests have not been fully evaluated with…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Nonverbal Ability, Cognitive Ability, Verbal Ability