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Peer reviewedDettermann, Douglas K.; Thompson, Lee Anne – American Psychologist, 1997
Special educational methods need to develop beyond the diagnostic use of IQ tests. Individual differences in cognitive abilities of students need to be understood and need to be incorporated into effective individualized educational interventions. The goal is to raise the level of performance and the standard deviation of performance. (MMU)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Ability, Hyperactivity, Individual Differences
Direct linkErickson, Marcia J.; Stage, Scott A.; Nelson, J. Ron – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2006
A descriptive study of 22 students (K-10th grade) with emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD) who were referred for functional behavioral assessment (FBA) revealed less on-task and more avoidant and inappropriate behaviors in comparison to classroom peers without EBD. Students who had been diagnosed as having attention-deficit/hyperactivity…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Hyperactivity, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Disorders
Thompson, Laetitia L.; Whitmore, Elizabeth A.; Raymond, Kristen M.; Crowley, Thomas J. – Assessment, 2006
Adolescents with substance use and conduct disorders have high rates of aggression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), all of which have been characterized in part by impulsivity. Developing measures that capture impulsivity behaviorally and correlate with self-reported impulsivity has been difficult. One promising behavioral…
Descriptors: Memory, Adolescents, Hyperactivity, Conceptual Tempo
Measuring Attentional Ability in Older Adults: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of DriverScan
Hoffman, Lesa; Yang, Xiangdong; Bovaird, James A.; Embretson, Susan E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Although deficits in visual attention are often postulated as an important component of many declines in cognitive processing and functional outcomes in older adults, surprisingly little emphasis has been placed on evaluating psychometric instruments with which individual differences in visual attention ability can be assessed. This article…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Models, Visual Perception
Olson, Richard K. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2006
This article presents an overview of some methods and results from our continuing studies of genetic and environmental influences on dyslexia, and on individual differences across the normal range that have been conducted over the past 25 years in the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC) and in related projects. CLDRC…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Environmental Influences, Family Environment, Learning Disabilities
Mezulis, Amy H.; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Hyde, Janet S.; Hankin, Benjamin L. – Psychological Bulletin, 2004
Researchers have suggested the presence of a self-serving attributional bias, with people making more internal, stable, and global attributions for positive events than for negative events. This study examined the magnitude, ubiquity, and adaptiveness of this bias. The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 266 studies, yielding 503 independent…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Cultural Differences, Age Differences, Individual Differences
Kercood, Suneeta; Zentall, Sydney S.; Lee, David L. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of actively categorizing math problems on the math problem solving performance of students with and without attention deficit disorder (ADD). To this purpose, 52 fifth and sixth grade students were involved in actively categorizing or noncategorizing (control) tasks followed by two problem…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attention Deficit Disorders, Problem Solving, Grade 5
