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Download full textPea, Roy D.; Kurland, D. Midian – 1983
This report explores the complex agenda of issues, promise, and problems that building a developmental science of programming entails and emphasizes the need to highlight different types of programming and programmers, the different cognitive subtasks involved in programming, and the social character of many programming efforts. An introduction…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Computer Science Education
Federico, Pat-Anthony – 1984
To ascertain whether cerebral lateralities can be considered aptitudes or individual difference measures within an aptitude-treatment-interaction (ATI) framework, hemispheric asymmetries and cognitive psychometric tests were administered to 50 right-handed, Caucasian, male Navy recruits. Principal factor analysis with varimax rotation was computed…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedHarrison, Carole S. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1990
Analyzed the relative contributions of academic ability, music experience, and musical aptitude to predicting grades in college freshman music theory courses. Found that the best predictor of grades was the mathematics component of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Data analysis revealed five factors that accounted for 78.6 percent of the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude, Educational Research, Grades (Scholastic)
Peer reviewedTolman, Richard R.; And Others – Science Education, 1988
Studies the quality of graduating science education majors at Brigham Young University (BYU) and attempts to identify possible trends in the ability of students who entered secondary school science teaching. Concludes that there was no manifested trend toward lower quality college students entering the science teaching profession at BYU. (CW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, College Entrance Examinations, College Science
Mills, Carol J. – 1984
Mathematically precocious adolescents were studied in order to identify sex differences in self-concept/self-esteem which exist at a stage when intellectual differences are emerging. Subjects were 166 males and 68 females, ages 12-15 years, enrolled in a summer residential program for talented youth. Mean SATM scores for the experimental…
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Aptitude, Behavioral Science Research
Mumford, Thelma – 1987
A program was designed to reduce the academic gap between aptitude and achievement of 150 gifted underachievers in grades 5-8 who had been removed from a Georgia-funded gifted program due to poor achievement test scores and were subsequently enrolled in the Atlanta Public School System's locally funded gifted program. The program also sought to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Aptitude
