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Peer reviewedGridley, Betty E. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2002
This article illustrates the use of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to explicate constructs underlying performance assessment tasks based on Gardner's (1993) theory of multiple intelligences. Data from Plucker, Callahan, and Tomchin (1996) were reanalyzed using CFA. A model with three factors that combined linguistic and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Children, Factor Analysis
Gould, Stephen Jay – New York Review of Books, 1980
Challenges Jensen's arguments (set forth in the book "Bias in Mental Testing") that intelligence tests are scientifically unbiased and that IQ and other mental tests measure something called "intelligence" by refuting Jensen's reading of the psychometric research literature. (EF)
Descriptors: Blacks, Book Reviews, Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedSiegel, Linda S. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Responds to "The Bell Curve" by arguing that IQ is merely a statistical fiction, an artificial construct not corresponding to any real entity. Discusses the "seductive statistical trap of factor analysis" as it relates to IQ tests, multiple intelligences, content and bias of IQ tests, lack of validity of IQ tests for individual…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Intelligence
