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West Virginia Department of Education, 2021
Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) partnered with the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Marshall University to conduct a five-year study of the quality of the West Virginia Universal Pre-K (WV Pre-K) program. The study was designed to examine the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, State Departments of Education, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
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McGrew, Kevin S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
The consensus of most intelligence scholars is that the Flynn effect (FE) is real, IQ test batteries are now routinely restandardized on a regular basis. A cornerstone in Flynn's explanation of the FE is his analysis of select Wechsler subtest scores across time. The featured articles by Kaufman and Zhou, Zhu, and Weiss question whether Flynn's…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Age Differences, Change, Test Norms
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Flynn, James R. – Intelligence, 2010
The ranking of Wechsler subtests in terms of their "g" loadings is equivalent to ranking them in terms of the cognitive complexity of the tasks measured. Lower performing groups do not always fall behind higher performing groups the more complex the task. But that is the general rule, no matter whether the cause of the lower performance…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Intelligence Tests, Race
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Jensen, A. R. – Intelligence, 2011
Mental chronometry (MC) studies cognitive processes measured by time. It provides an absolute, ratio scale. The limitations of instrumentation and statistical analysis caused the early studies in MC to be eclipsed by the "paper-and-pencil" psychometric tests started by Binet. However, they use an age-normed, rather than a ratio scale, which…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Intelligence Quotient, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis