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Datta, Sumona; Dutta Roy, Debdulal – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
Measurement of mental rotation presents a serious challenge to cognitive researchers owing to the lack of a single comprehensive measure that can be applied across the developing age groups. Objective of the present study was to develop and validate a new measure of mental rotation for preadolescent and adolescent age groups. Items were…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Preadolescents, Adolescents
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Babic Cikeš, Ana; Cakic, Lara; Kuti, Vedrana – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The changed sentence: The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Emotion Matching Task (EMT) in a sample of Croatian preschool children. The Croatian version of the EMT was applied to 198 children (52% female), together with measures of verbal ability and social competence. The internal structure of the test, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Objective Tests, Psychological Patterns, Preschool Children
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Lagos-Luciano, Juan; Andruske, Cynthia Lee; Cossio-Bolaños, Marco; Sulla-Torres, Jose; Idme, Leonel Coyla; Luarte-Rocha, Cristian; Gómez-Campos, Rossana – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The aim of the study was to validate an instrument and propose standards to measure the language skills of school adolescents. 2270 adolescents (1134 males and 1136 females) in the region of Maule (Chile) was studied. The age range is between 10 to 18 years. The validated instrument has three categories (verbal, paralinguistic and non-verbal) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Adolescents, Verbal Ability
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Bulut, Okan; Cormier, Damien C.; Aquilina, Alexandra M.; Bulut, Hatice C. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
The Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG) is a comprehensive assessment battery designed to assess broad and narrow cognitive abilities, as defined by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of intelligence. Previous studies examined the invariance of the WJ assessments across sex and age groups using factor analytic methods.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Psychometrics, Gender Differences
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Esmergül, Pelin; Önder, Vahide Bahar – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
Musical perception is a fundamental of music teaching. Even if it's considered as a field concerning institutions providing vocational musical education, it takes a part in every person's life even consciously or unconsciously. Issue of choosing or determining individuals who has the talent on music is mostly faced at aptitude tests. Musical…
Descriptors: Music Education, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, Ability
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Latorre-Román, Pedro Ángel; Consuegra González, Pedro José; Martínez-Redondo, Melchor; Cardona Linares, Antonio José; Salas-Sánchez, J.; Lucena Zurita, Manuel; Manjón Pozas, D.; Pérez Jiménez, Inmaculada; Aragón-Vela, J.; García-Pinillos, Felipe; Robles-Fuentes, Alejandro; Párraga-Montilla, J. A. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to design and validate a complex gait test (CGT) in preschool children and to examine the relationship between CGT performance and age, sex, and cognitive functioning. A total of 1,040 preschool children, aged 3 to 6 years, participated in this study. In all children, standardized dynamic balance test, and several…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Bildiren, Ahmet – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The objective of the study was to test the Coloured Progressive Matrices Test with regard to reliability and validity for the 3-9 age sample group because of the lack of diagnostic tools for the pre-school period. The sample group of the study was comprised of a total of 925 children with 433 girls (46.8%) and 492 boys (53.2%). Coloured…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Gifted
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Fielding-Gebhardt, Heather; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L.; Warren, Steven F. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The development of an expressive language score for people with autism based on the ADOS-2 was recently reported by Mazurek et al. (2019). The current study examined the construct validity of the ADOS-2 expressive language score (ELS) in a sample of adolescents with fragile X syndrome (n = 45, 10 girls), a neurodevelopmental disorder with high…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Expressive Language, Genetic Disorders
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Cruickshank Campbell, Hannah; Wilson, Christopher J.; Joshua, Nicki – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Objective: The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence -- Fourth Edition Australian and New Zealand Standardised Edition (WPPSI-IV[superscript A&NZ]) is one of the most widely used intelligence assessments for children aged 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months. Given the impact of clinical and placement decisions that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Young Children, Intelligence Tests, Gifted
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Sansano-Nadal, Oriol; Wilson, Jason J.; Martín-Borràs, Carme; Brønd, Jan Christian; Skjødt, Mathias; Caserotti, Paolo; Roqué I. Figuls, Marta; Blackburn, Nicole E.; Klenk, Jochen; Rothenbacher, Dietrich; Guerra-Balic, Myriam; Font-Farré, Manel; Denkinger, Michael; Coll-Planas, Laura; Deidda, Manuela; McIntosh, Emma; Giné-Garriga, Maria; Tully, Mark A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
The main aim of this study was to assess the criterion validity of the Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) to measure SB in community-dwelling older adults using thigh-measured accelerometry as the criterion method. 801 participants (75.6 ± 6.1 years old, 57.6% females) provided valid thigh-based accelerometer data (activPAL/Axivity) and…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Zhao, Hongyang; Alexander, Patricia A.; Sun, Yuting – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The overarching goal of this 2-phase study was to investigate the contributions of relational reasoning to mathematical thinking and performance for 790 primary and middle-school Chinese students. Phase I of the study was undertaken to establish the reliability and validity of the Test of Relational Reasoning-Junior (TORRjr), a 32-item measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Mathematical Logic
Daisy C. Berman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In view of the potential benefits that computers can bring to older adults, it is advantageous that they acquire a basic understanding of computer function. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became necessary to register for vaccines online, and this posed a problem for some older adults who were neither knowledgeable in using computers nor had…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Internet, Computer Literacy, Test Construction
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Burger-Caplan, Rebecca; Saulnier, Celine; Jones, Warren; Klin, Ami – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The Social Attribution Task, Multiple Choice is introduced as a measure of implicit social cognitive ability in children, addressing a key challenge in quantification of social cognitive function in autism spectrum disorder, whereby individuals can often be successful in explicit social scenarios, despite marked social adaptive deficits. The…
Descriptors: Social Development, Cognitive Ability, Children, Autism
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Bauminger-Zviely, Nirit; Shefer, Analia – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Peer interaction can be challenging in autism spectrum disorder, but naturalistic peer-observation scales for preschoolers are scarce. This study examined psychometric qualities of the newly developed Autism Peer Interaction Observation Scale. We tested the Autism Peer Interaction Observation Scale to (a) characterize peer interactions of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Test Validity
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Winke, Paula; Lee, Shinhye; Ahn, Jieun Irene; Choi, Ina; Cui, Yaqiong; Yoon, Hyung-Jo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study investigated the cognitive validity of two child English language tests. Some teachers maintain that these types of tests may be cognitively invalid because native-English-speaking children would not do well on them (Winke, 2011). So the researchers had native speakers and learners of English aged 7 to 9 take sample versions of two…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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