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Download full textSnow, Richard E. – 1976
The theoretical and methodological concepts available to and needed by research on aptitudes as cognitive processes are discussed. Contemporary views of cognitive processes are examined in relation to individual difference constructs and the methods used to examine their reliability and validity. Individual difference constructs are discussed in…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
Sticht, Thomas C.; Kern, Richard P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
REALISTIC is an acronym based upon the three literacy skills areas studied--REAding, LIStening, and ArithmeTIC. The general objectives of the project are: (1) to provide information concerning the demands for reading, listening, and arithmetic skills in several major military occupational specialties (MOSS), and (2) to provide information and…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Employment Qualifications, Instructional Materials, Listening
Bloom, Benjamin S. – Evaluation Comment, 1968
Most students, perhaps over 90 percent, can master what teachers have to teach them, and it is the task of instruction to find the means which will enable students to master the subject under consideration. A basic task is to determine what is meant by mastery of the subject and to search for methods and materials which will enable the largest…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Curriculum, Educational Research, Individual Differences
Barrow, Wesley Charles – 1971
Investigated were the effects of two different methods of instruction on concept and principle learning related to organic evaluation. Also investigated was the relationship between achievement and science aptitude. The sample was selected from tenth grade students in a high school in Arizona. They were randomly assigned to a Biological Sciences…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude, Biology, Doctoral Dissertations
Ingersoll, Gary M. – 1972
Research literature regarding the aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) model of research is reviewed, and arguments for and against the use of the model are described. The purpose of the model is to allow a combination of desired properties of experimental and correlational methods. It yields disordinal interactions when experimental situations…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Correlation, Experimental Groups, Interaction
Peer reviewedCallihan, Hubert D.; Bell, Frederick H. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1978
Data analysis revealed that a post-organizer had a significant facilitating effect on immediate free-recall in a controlled lecture in college statistics, but no effect on immediate content recognition or delayed free-recall. (MP)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Development, College Mathematics, Concept Formation
Hall, Keith A. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1977
A model of the hierarchy of the tutoring processes and a review of related research. (DAG)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science, Interaction
Peer reviewedSiegel, Ross G.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1985
Contrasted two theoretical models to explain the mathematics final exam performance of 143 undergraduates: social learning theory variables and the math aptitude-anxiety models. The social learning theory model accounted for significantly more performance variation, and each of the variables (skills, incentives, efficacy expectations, and outcome…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Anxiety
Shavelson, Richard J.; Lau, Shun – 2002
Richard E. Snow, working from his new aptitude theory, advocated a multidimensional approach to validating the construct of academic achievement. This report briefly describes Snows recommended approach and then summarizes new evidence from recent studies in terms of three related themes: (1) multidimensionality of science achievement; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Aptitude, Elementary Secondary Education
Khan, Sar B.; D'Oyley, V. R. – Engineering Education, 1973
Studied the type of skills required for engineering students to succeed in their work, using high school grades and predictor batteries such as aptitude and standardized achievement tests. Concluded that the findings of similar earlier studies were confirmed with achievement tests preferred over aptitude tests for student selection. (CC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Admission Criteria, Aptitude
Peer reviewedWankel, Leonard M. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1972
Study was designed to investigate whether rivalry, coaction, and audience can be isolated separately from a competitive situation. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Measurement, Group Dynamics, Motivation Techniques
Kish, George B.; Leahy, Louis – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Age, Aptitude, Cognitive Tests, College Students
Gough, Harrison G.; Kirk, Barbara A. – Meas Evaluation Guidance, 1970
Attempts to predict performance in dental school from individual scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) have yielded equivocal results. A five scale regression equation to predict grades and faculty ratings suggested implications of dependability, conscientiousness, and perserverance at one pole and impulsiveness, carelessness, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Aptitude, College Students
Peer reviewedHolliday, William G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1979
Describes an aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) hypothesis used to investigate relationships among aptitudes and science instructional treatments in terms of student performance. It is proposed that ATI research work in science education will systematically yield reliable generalizations about how to adapt instruction to individuals with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Educational Research
Peer reviewedJanikowski, Timothy P.; And Others – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1992
Examined vocational evaluation's impact on rehabilitation client self-estimated aptitudes and interests. Results of study of 73 clients at comprehensive rehabilitation facility indicated that clients tended to overestimate aptitudes and interests in comparison to their tested levels and process of vocational evaluation had little effect on…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Interests, Rehabilitation Counseling
