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Baker, Joseph; Cote, Jean – High Ability Studies, 2003
Several sport-specific talent detection models have been developed over the last 30 years (Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2001). However, these models have failed in at least one important standard of judgment--accurately predicting who will develop into an elite level athlete. The authors believe that the WICS model presented by Robert Sternberg also…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Talent Identification, Models, Predictor Variables
Freed, Barbara F. – 1980
Language skill attrition refers to the loss of any language or portion of a language whether it be the declining use of mother tongue skills, the replacement of one language by another in language contact situations, the deterioration of language in the neurologically impaired or elderly, or the death of whole languages. In this paper, language…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes