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Problems in Deriving Italian Regional Differences in Intelligence from 2009 PISA Data
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Giofre, David; Martini, Angela – Intelligence, 2013
Recent results of international assessment programs (e.g., PISA) have shown a large difference in high school students' performance between northern and southern Italy. On this basis, it has been argued that the discrepancy reflects differences in average intelligence of the inhabitants of regions and is associated with genetic factors ( and ).…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Inferences
Sex Differences in Processing Speed: Developmental Effects in Males and Females
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Camarata, Stephen; Woodcock, Richard – Intelligence, 2006
The purpose of this study was to compare the cognitive abilities and selected achievement performance of females and males across the lifespan on standardization samples of broad cognitive abilities in 1987 participants (1102 females, 885 males) from the WJ III, 4253 participants (2014 males, 2239 females) from the WJ-R, and 4225 participants…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Reading Fluency, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
Toward a Differential Testing Approach: Testing-the-Limits Employing the Raven Matrices.
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Carlson, Jerry S.; Wiedl, Karl Heinz – Intelligence, 1979
Various testing-the-limits procedures were employed in administering the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices Test to second- and fourth-grade children. Tests of impulsivity, neuroticism, extroversion, intelligence, and achievement were given. Procedures which involved verbalization and feedback were efficacious in maximizing performance on the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Style
Psychometric Intelligence and Adaptive Competence in Rural Phillippine Children.
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Church, A. Timothy; And Others – Intelligence, 1985
Psychometric intelligence and adaptive competence constructs were compared in five- to seven-year-old children in a rural Phillippine barrio. Individualized psychometric subtests of intelligence, indigenous with respect to content, and a form for obtaining adults' ratings of children's adaptive competencies, were developed. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Analysis of Variance