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Professional and Personal Development in Contemporary Gerontology Doctoral Education
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Ewen, Heidi H.; Rowles, Graham D.; Watkins, John F. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
This article reports on the Gerontology Doctoral Student Assessment Model (GDSAM), a comprehensive web-based system premised on developing an evaluation mechanism attuned to the special requirements of advanced graduate education at the doctoral level. The system focuses on longitudinal tracking of selected dimensions of intellectual,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Gerontology, Doctoral Programs, Individual Development
Thirty Years on--A Large Anti-Flynn Effect? The Piagetian Test Volume & Heaviness Norms 1975-2003
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Shayer, Michael; Ginsburg, Denise; Coe, Robert – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: "Volume & Heaviness" was one of three Piagetian tests used in the CSMS survey in 1975/76. However unlike psychometric tests showing the Flynn effect--that is with students showing steady improvements year by year requiring tests to be restandardized--it appeared that the performance of Y7 students has recently been…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Females, Males, Intelligence
Comparison of Academically Average and Gifted Students' Self-Rated Ethical Sensitivity
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Tirri, Kirsi; Nokelainen, Petri – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
This study examined the ethical sensitivity of 2 Finnish urban schools' 7th- to 9th-grade students (N = 249) with the Ethical Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ESSQ), based on Narvaez' (2001) operationalization of ethical sensitivity. Three research questions were formulated: (1) Are the psychometric properties of ESSQ scientifically valid? Are…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academically Gifted, Psychometrics, Ethics
Psychometric Evidence of Intellectual Growth Spurts in Early Adolescence.
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Andrich, David; Styles, Irene – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1994
Examined quantitative evidence of an intellectual growth spurt during early adolescence by combining modern psychometric modeling, computerized testing with the Raven progressive matrices, and longitudinal socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Found that gender difference was not significant. Notes the impact of this evidence on educational…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age, Body Height
Psychometric and Piagetian Intelligence: Toward Resolution of Controversy.
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Carroll, John B.; And Others – Intelligence, 1984
Whether "psychometric" and "Piagetian" kinds of intelligence are similar is a question of whether they have similar courses of development with age. When using factor analysis to address this issue, age effects must be eliminated in order to assess relations among measured constructs. Reanalyses of previous results were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures, Developmental Continuity
The Construction of the Plan of a House Test and an Investigation into Some of Its Developmental Implications in Children.
Thorstad, G. – 1986
In order to construct a plan drawing test for emotionally disturbed children, 1,250 children from 6 to 15 years old were asked to draw plans of their houses. Forty items in this cross-sectional sample illustrate a regular and rapid increase with age from the purely vertical pictures of houses at 6 years to the mainly horizontal representations at…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages
Changing Approaches to Research into Personality and Learning. No. 59. Investigation into the Learning and Teaching of Basic Concepts in Economics. No. 3.
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Entwistle, Noel – 1977
A series of studies carried out in Aberdeen, Scotland and Lancaster England is used to illustrate changing interests in the area of personality and learning. The early studies looked for general relationships, adopting a psychometric approach. Recent work has been focused more on the process of learning, particularly in higher education, and on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education