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Direct linkHays, Danica G. – American Counseling Association, 2017
The latest edition of this perennial bestseller instructs and updates students and clinicians on the basic principles of psychological assessment and measurement, recent changes in assessment procedures, and the most widely used tests in counseling practice today. Dr. Danica Hays guides counselors in the appropriate selection, interpretation, and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Psychological Evaluation, Psychological Testing, Test Selection
Beggs, Donald L.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1972
In this study, the manner in which IQ test results were communicated to teachers appeared to have no significant influence on student achievement or IQ scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role
Peer reviewedKline, Rex B.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This study evaluated the external validity of a measure of IQ subtest variability, the profile variability index (PVI), with a sample of 146 children referred for psychological testing. Correlation of PVIs on each intelligence test with achievement scores and indexes of discrepancy between actual and predicted scholastic achievement found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Intelligence Tests, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMinde, Klaus; Kantor, Seymour – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1976
Notes that the children who improved the most on re-test were also those who had the highest general academic standing, suggesting that a general compliance to instruction (rather than practice alone) is an important determinant of performance change on this test. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Performance Factors, Preschool Children
Download full textBennett, Virginia D. C. – 1970
Intelligence tests, particularly the Stanford-Binet, have been much abused and unintelligently misused. If the results of such testing are used for the purpose for which they were designed and are interpreted carefully and accurately, then the results can be used to indicate what kind of teaching methods should be utilized; what kind of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Objectives
Vitro, Frank T. – Academic Therapy, 1978
Intelligence testing has a place in assessment and placement procedures. (PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Group Testing, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedReschly, Daniel J.; Sabers, Darrell L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1979
Test bias, assumed as equal regression lines between two different tests for different populations was investigated to predict Metropolitan Achievement Tests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised. Subjects were 1,040 children in grades 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9: Anglo American, Black, Mexican American, and Native American Papago. (JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Intelligence Tests, Minority Group Children
Peer reviewedOng, Jin; Jones, Lowell, Jr. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Rank-difference correlations between Memory-for-Designs test, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), and Wide Range Achievement Test scores for two classes of educable mentally retarded children showed high negative correlations between Memory-for-Designs and WISC Full Scale IQs. Visual memory accounted for 84 percent of variance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedVandivier, Phillip L.; Vandivier, Stella Sue – Educational Forum, 1979
Arguments and prejudices against the use of individually administered intelligence tests are considered and compared with possible values that may be obtained. Cautions about test score interpretation are discussed. Implications of abolishing intelligence testing are considered and recommendations for effective testing policies are presented. (CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence
Durost, Walter N. – 1971
The New Hampshire statewide testing program was implemented to provide a data base for the evaluation of the effectiveness of Title I projects as required by Federal law. To accomplish this objective, achievement and intelligence tests were administered to children in Title I projects and regular programs in four elementary grades--2, 4, 6 and 8.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1972
Contrary to popular opinion, it is very difficult to find any objective evidence of culture bias that could account for social class and racial differences in performance on current standard tests of intelligence, even those like the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), which give the appearance of being highly culture-loaded. They may be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Educational Diagnosis, Factor Analysis
Randhawa, Bikkar S. – 1980
Scores on mental ability and academic skills for 1958 and 1978 of representative sample of grade 4 and 7 classes in Saskatchewan were compared. The selected students were administered appropriate levels of the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Tests, and the Canadian Tests of Basic skills in vocabulary, reading, language skills (spelling, capitalization,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Correlation
Peer reviewedJohnson, Sylvia T. – Urban League Review, 1988
Reviews the major issues involved in testing Black children and youth. Argues that testing must be demystified by improving professional training, and that testing must be viewed as only one part of the assessment of achievement and ability. Concludes that more Black professionals must be included in the process of test development and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Black Leadership, Black Youth
McLaughlin, Kenneth F. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Under Title V, Guidance, Counseling, and Testing of the "National Defense Education Act of 1958," the Congress of the United States has recognized the value of tests as a tool which may be used to help make an early determination of the aptitudes and abilities of the students in U.S. schools. This bulletin attempts to explain the use and…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Guidance, Educational Testing, Aptitude Tests
