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Glickman, Judith R. – 1976
This paper reviews the research on sex differences in intellectual functioning as it relates to verbal abilities, spatial abilities, and reading aptitudes. Research supports such statements as: sex aptitudes do not become significantly apparent until adolescence; males perform better than females on problems involving field-indep (picking out one…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Intelligence Differences, Reading Research, Research Reviews (Publications)
Hauser, Robert M.; Huang, Min-Hsiung – 1996
Until the 1970s, there were few signs of change in the historic difference of one standard deviation between average ability or achievement test scores of black and white students. From 1970 to the mid-to-late 1980s, there was a substantial convergence of the average achievement test scores of blacks and whites. From the mid-to-late 1980s to 1992,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Vernon, Philip E. – 1982
Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the United States and Canada have survived years of discrimination and oppression and today demonstrate academic and professional achievements that are often better than those of whites. However, the Asians continue to obtain higher scores on nonverbal/spatial tests than on verbal tests and tend to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Denno, Deborah J. – 1983
A study designed to examine biological, sociological, and early maturational correlates of intelligence collected data prospectively, from birth to 15 years of age, on a sample of 987 black children. Multiple indicators of eight independent and three dependent variables were tested in a structural equation model. Altogether, clear sex differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biological Influences, Black Youth, Child Development
Download full textLim, Tock Keng – 1993
Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to test first- and second-order factor models on cognitive abilities and their invariance across male and female samples. Subjects were a stratified random sample of 234 male and 225 female 15-year-old students in Singapore attending Secondary 3 (the equivalent of grade 9). Four first-order factors were found…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages, Factor Structure, Females
Shaughnessy, Michael F. – 1985
Recent theorists have begun to re-conceptualize the construct of "intelligence." This paper reviews recent theories of intelligence and indicates implications for practitioners, educators, and individuals. Theories and theorists discussed include the following: (1) Robert Sternberg has advanced the "triarchic theory" of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
