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Validity of an Instrument That Assesses Functional Abilities in People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities: Look What I Can Do!
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Wessels, Marleen D.; Paap, Muirne C. S.; Van der Putten, Annette A. J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: Research about the psychometric properties of the Behavioural Appraisal Scales (BAS) in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) is limited. This study evaluates invariance in factor structure, item bias and convergent validity of the BAS. Methods: Data on the BAS from two studies (n = 25; n = 52) were…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Ability Identification, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities
Diagnosis and Monitoring of Basic Motor Competencies among Third-Graders in Luxembourg. An Assessment Tool for Teachers
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Scheuer, Claude; Bund, Andreas; Herrmann, Christian – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2019
Basic motor competencies (in German: Motorische Basiskompetenzen; MOBAK) are performance dispositions empowering children to participate in the movement culture. For the diagnosis of basic motor competencies, a test instrument consisting of 15 test items for assessing third graders' basic motor competencies was developed (MOBAK-LUX-3) and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Psychomotor Skills, Foreign Countries
The Process of Identifying Gifted Children in Elementary Education: Teachers' Evaluations of Creativity
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Garcia-Ros, Rafael; Talaya, Isabel; Perez-Gonzalez, Francisco – School Psychology International, 2012
This study describes the importance of creativity in the identification of gifted elementary-aged children and presents the process of validating a scale for rating the creativity of the students through the teachers' responses. The results show the instrument's unifactorial structure, satisfactory levels of internal consistency, as well as…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Gifted, Validity, Elementary Education
Hierarchical Analyses of the WISC and WISC-R: Synthesis and Clinical Implications.
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Blaha, John; Wallbrown, Fred H. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Examines the structure of human abilities from a hierarchial viewpoint. Findings provided a description of the abilities that children may use in responding to the tasks included in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and provided a framework to generate clinical hypotheses about any child's performance. (LLL)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure
Joint Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the DAS and WISC-R.
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Stone, Brian J. – Journal of School Psychology, 1992
Investigated joint factor structure of Differential Abilities Scale and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised for 115 children. Compared theoretically supportable models (Spearman's General factor; Wechsler's Verbal, Performance, and Freedom from Distractibility factors; Elliott's verbal, nonverbal, spatial, and diagnostic perspective)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Human Abilities Revealed through Auditory Tests.
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Stankov, Lazar; Horn, John L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Studies on visual, musical, and speech perception abilities were used to construct auditory ability tests. Correlation and factorial analyses indicated separate capacities for auditory verbal comprehension, auditory immediate memory, temporal tracking, auditory cognition of relationships, discrimination among sound patterns, speech perception…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception
Higher-Stratum Ability Structures on a Basis of Twenty Primary Abilities.
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Hakstian, A. Ralph; Cattell, Raymond B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Twenty primary abilities were measured using the Comprehensive Ability Battery. Factor analysis produced six oblique second-stratum factors. Four were identified as capacities in Cattell's triadic theory of ability structure. Correlations among factors yielded three oblique third-stratum factors. Implications for a hierarchical conceptualization…
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Identification, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Factors Underlying Teacher Perceptions of Highly Gifted Students: A Cross-Cultural Study.
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Busse, Thomas V.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
Each of 434 West German and 446 American high school teachers nominated one student as highly gifted. All teachers completed a questionnaire in which they rated their nominees on 83 characteristics. The intercorrelations of the items were factor analyzed to yield seven German and five American factors. (LMO)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies, Factor Analysis
Intellectual Assessment of Hispanic Children.
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Clarizio, Harvey F. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Examines whether individual intelligence tests such as the WISC-R are biased against Hispanic school-aged children. Discusses three common but faulty notions of test bias, and advances a psychometric definition of bias. Analyzes evidence regarding external and internal validity. Presents guidelines for intellectual assessment of bilingual…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Bilingual Students, Children, Elementary Secondary Education