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Houtz, John C.; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1973
A problem-solving inventory was administered with other measures of cognitive abilities and school achievement in order to determine interrelationships between these measures. A distinct problem-solving factor, separate from measures of school achievement and language abilities but related to logical thinking and conceptual ability was…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
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Messick, Samuel – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1984
Comprehensive assessment in context focuses on the processes and structures involved in subject matter competence as moderated in performance by personal and environmental influences. This article addresses in detail both the nature of developing competence and its measurement in terms of context-dependent task performance. (Author/EGS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Humphreys, Lloyd G. – Intelligence, 1980
Stephens et al. (EJ 055 112) committed a serious methodological error in holding chronological age constant in their IQ measures and allowing it to vary in their Piagetian developmental measures. This error is unrelated to differences in factor rotation methods used by these authors and was not answered in their reply. (CTM)
Descriptors: Chronological Age, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
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Kohlberg, Lawrence; DeVries, Rheta – Intelligence, 1980
These authors cite their own study of the relationship between traditional measures of intelligence and Piagetian measures of cognitive development in support of Glass and Stephens' contention that there are important qualitative differences. They question Humphreys' and Parsons' conclusions on both substantive and factor theoretical grounds. (CTM)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Browne, Dauna Bell – White Cloud Journal, 1984
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised scoring patterns of 197 Native American children (ages 6-16, 90 girls and 107 boys) at a Northern Plains boarding school were explored to identify characteristic cognitive processing strengths. Findings indicated greater strength than among standardization population in relational, holistic, right…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indian Education, American Indians, Cognitive Measurement
Keefe, James W.; Monk, John S. – 1986
This examiner's manual accompanies the Learning Style Profile (LSP), which measures cognitive skills as well as affective and environmental preferences. Charles Letteri's General Operations Model was accepted as the prototype for relating learning styles to cognitive information processing. The LSP was developed from 1983 to 1986; several versions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests