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Peer reviewedKaufman, Alan S.; McLean, James E. – Journal of School Psychology, 1987
Investigated factor structures of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for 212 normal children. Findings suggest correspondence between: (1) WISC-R Verbal Comprehension and K-ABC Achievement; (2) WISC-R Perceptual Organization and K-ABC Simultaneous Processing; and (3) WISC-R…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Testing, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Peer reviewedRosenbach, John H.; Rusch, Reuben R. – Psychology in the Schools, 1991
Administered 1930s version of Pintner General Ability Tests: Verbal Series to 138 fifth grade students. Compared to scores from current intelligence and achievement tests, Pintner means were similar. Correlations of Pintner with other tests were of same order as those typically reported among contemporary measures. Item difficulty appeared similar…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Grade 5
Peer reviewedSeidenberg, Michael; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Examined the influence of intelligence level on the performance of children (N=121), aged 9-14, on the Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery. Results indicated a significant influence of IQ on level of performance on six of 14 measures. Tests of problem-solving abilities, language skills, and auditory perceptual analysis were most…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
This analysis of 12,266 responses to the 3 Self-Description Questionnaires (which measure dimensions of self-concept in preadolescence) examined age and sex effects during preadolescence and early adulthood and alternative operationalizations of the proposition that self-concept becomes more differentiated with age. Well-defined factor structures…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Testing
Peer reviewedHarmon, Michele Alicia – Evaluation Review, 1993
DARE's effectiveness in Charleston County (South Carolina) was studied by comparing 341 DARE to 367 non-DARE fifth-grade students. DARE teaches students to recognize and resist social pressures to use drugs. DARE has positive impacts on anti-substance abuse attitudes, assertiveness, positive peer association, association with drug-using peers, and…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Abuse
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W.; Holmes, Iain W. MacDonald – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
The construct validity of 290 preadolescent children's responses to 3 instruments claiming to measure dimensions of self-concept was studied. Instruments administered to the fifth graders include the Self-Description Questionnaire; the Perceived Competence Scale; and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scales. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Download full textSherman, Lawrence W.; And Others – 1990
School achievement attributions for success and failure were examined for American and Polish preadolescents between the ages of 12 and 13 years. The American sample included 115 preadolescents (53 males and 62 females), and the Polish sample included 64 children (34 males and 30 females). The American subjects came from a suburban racially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity
Sudweeks, Richard R.; And Others – 1989
Testwise responses of grade-school students to multiple-choice science items and the intercorrelations between different testwiseness skills were examined in this document. A total of 134 third-grade, 133 fifth-grade, and 143 sixth-grade students from two elementary schools in a large suburban school district in Utah responded to 60 science items…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Stockholm (Sweden). – 1975
The "Student Achievement Study" machine-readable data files (MRDF) (also referred to as the "IEA Six-Subject Survey") are the result of an international data collection effort during 1970-1974 by 21 designated National Centers, which had agreed to cooperate. The countries involved were: Australia, Belgium, Chile, England-Wales,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Civics, Cognitive Tests
