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Stanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
In this article the authors argue that distinguishing between rationality and intelligence helps explain how people can be, at the same time, intelligent and irrational (Stanovich, 2009). As such, researchers need to study separately the individual differences in cognitive skills that underlie intelligence and the individual differences in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Responses, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence Quotient
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Smith, Gerald F. – Journal of Management Education, 2014
The development of student thinking skills is a major goal of business education. As with other such goals, student outcomes assessment must be undertaken to measure goal achievement. Thinking is difficult to teach; it is also difficult to assess. The purpose of this article is to improve management educators' understanding of student thinking…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Thinking Skills, College Students, Student Evaluation
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Unsworth, Nash – Intelligence, 2010
The present study examined whether various indices of interference control were related to one another and to other cognitive abilities. It was found that the interference control measures were weakly correlated and could form a single factor that was related to overall memory performance on the tasks as well as to measures of working memory…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence, Evaluation Methods
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Kaniel, Shlomo – Gifted Education International, 2010
The article responds to the need for evidence-based dynamic assessment. The article is divided into two sections: In Part 1 we examine the scientific answer to the question of how far human mental activities and capabilities are domain general (DG) / domain specific (DS). A highly complex answer emerges from the literature review of domains such…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence, Personality Traits
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Firkowska-Mankiewicz, Anna – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
The author's plenary address at the 3rd International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities-Europe Conference in Rome, Italy (October 2010), provided a retrospective overview of a longitudinal study conducted with a cohort of pre-teens (11 and 13 years of age) residing in Warsaw, Poland, in the 1970s. The intent was to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Health Services, Intelligence, Employment Level
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Steinmayr, Ricarda; Beauducel, Andre; Spinath, Birgit – Intelligence, 2010
Recently, different methodological approaches have been discussed as an explanation for inconsistencies in studies investigating sex differences in different intelligences. The present study investigates sex differences in manifest sum scores, factor score estimates, and latent verbal, numerical, figural intelligence, as well as fluid and…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Factor Analysis, Effect Size
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Parmenter, Trevor R. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2011
People with an intellectual disability have existed across human history, making up a part of all cultures. They represent a small part of the extremely wide variety of people in the human population at any one time. This review essay examines the 11th and latest Definition and Classification Manual published by the American Association on…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Classification
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Lange, Rael T.; Iverson, Grant L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This study evaluated the concurrent validity of estimated Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales-Third Edition (WAIS-III) index scores using various one- and two-subtest combinations. Participants were the Canadian WAIS-III standardization sample. Using all possible one- and two-subtest combinations, an estimated Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), an…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Validity, Intelligence Tests, Memory
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Hunt, Earl; Madhyastha, Tara – Intelligence, 2008
Studies of group differences in intelligence often invite conclusions about groups in general from studies of group differences in selected populations. The same design is used in the study of group differences in other traits as well. Investigators observe samples from two groups (e.g. men and women) in some accessible population, but seek to…
Descriptors: Intelligence, College Students, Females, Recruitment
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Baumert, Jurgen; Ludtke, Oliver; Trautwein, Ulrich; Brunner, Martin – Educational Research Review, 2009
Given the relatively high intercorrelations observed between mathematics achievement, reading achievement, and cognitive ability, it has recently been claimed that student assessment studies (e.g., TIMSS, PISA) and intelligence tests measure a single cognitive ability that is practically identical to general intelligence. The present article uses…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Outcomes of Education
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Hokanson, Brad – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
Specific training may be required to develop creativity in design students. At the very least, training is valuable in developing creativity in first-year students. Creativity is a skill that can be examined, used and taught--and it is one that is central to designing. This paper presents the results of empirical research from a class in creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Design, Innovation
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Cohen, Arie; Fiorello, Catherine A.; Farley, Frank H. – Intelligence, 2006
A previous study on the underlying structure of the Wechsler intelligence test (WISC-R; [Wechsler, D. (1974). Manual WISC-R: Wechsler intelligence scale for children-Revised. New York: Psychological Corporation]), using smallest space analysis (SSA) [Guttman, L., and Levy, S. (1991). Two structural laws for intelligence tests.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Children, Models
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Copeland, William; Landry, Kerry; Stanger, Catherine; Hudziak, James J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
We examined the criterion validity of parent and self-report versions of the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (JTCI) in children with high levels of externalizing problems. The sample included 412 children (206 participants and 206 siblings) participating in a family study of attention and aggressive behavior problems. Criterion validity…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Children, Child Behavior, Evaluation Methods
Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance- based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from Grades 3-5 at two private schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Students were administered DISCOVER and the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Private Schools, Academically Gifted, Performance Based Assessment
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Thorndike, Robert L. – Intelligence, 1994
Evidence is presented in support of psychometric "g," arguing that it accounts for most of the prediction of educational and vocational criteria that is possible from a battery of tests of cognitive tasks. Providing the best measure of "g" is explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Intelligence
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