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Why Questionable Assessment Practices Remain Popular in School Psychology: Instructional Materials as Pedagogic Vehicles
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Farmer, Ryan L.; McGill, Ryan J.; Dombrowski, Stefan C.; Canivez, Gary L. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Surveys reveal that many school psychologists continue to employ cognitive profile analysis despite the long-standing history of negative research results from this class of practice. This begets the question: why do questionable assessment practices persist in school psychology? To provide insight on this dilemma, this article presents the…
Descriptors: School Psychology, School Psychologists, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Measurement
The Role of Functional Information for Infant Categorization
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Trauble, Birgit; Pauen, Sabina – Cognition, 2007
This report examines whether knowledge about function influences the formation of artifact categories in 11-12- month old infants. Using an object-examination task, a set of artificial stimuli was presented that could either be grouped according to overall similarity or according to similarity in one functionally relevant part. Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Infants, Classification, Cognitive Tests
Cognitive Style Assessment: One Test or Several?
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Scott, Norval C. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to improve the reliability of the Sigel Cognitive Style Test. Post hoc analysis of ninety test protocols had indicated that the original thirty-five card test could be shortened to improve the test's reliability. This analysis also showed that males were responding to certain cards differently from females.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Piaget's Geographical Spatial Stages: An Examination of Their Relationship to Elementary Children's Classification-Class Inclusion Abilities.
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Rand, David C.; Towler, John O. – 1973
This study examines the relationship between a child's concept of geographic and territorial relationships and his competence on classification and class inclusion measures. Jean Piaget's stages of development and studies conducted by other investigators (Jahoda, 1964; Stoltman, 1971; Rand and Towler, 1973; Flavell, 1963; Asher, et al, 1971;…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Don't Throw Out the Piagetian Baby with the Psychometric Bath: Reply to Humphreys and Parsons.
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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
A Preliminary Report of the Relationship Between Piaget's and Klausmeier's Measures of Children's Cognitive Development. Technical Report No. 426. Reprinted December 1977.
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1976
Piaget's model of children's conceptual learning and development was compared with Klausmeier's Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) model in a longitudinal study. The CLD model suggests four successive levels of concept learning: (1) concrete--recognizing an object which has been encountered previously; (2) identity--recognizing a known…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement