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Psychometric Properties of the Teacher-Reported Motor Skills Rating Scale
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Kim, Helyn; Murrah, William M.; Cameron, Claire E.; Brock, Laura L.; Cottone, Elizabeth A.; Grissmer, David – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
Children's early motor competence is associated with social development and academic achievement. However, few studies have examined teacher reports of children's motor skills. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Motor Skills Rating Scale (MSRS), a 19-item measure of children's teacher-reported motor skills in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Mathematics Achievement
Why Do Fine Motor Skills Predict Mathematics? Construct Validity of the Design Copying Task
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Murrah, William M.; Chen, Wei-Bing; Cameron, Claire E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Recent educational studies have found evidence that measures of fine motor skills are predictive of educational outcomes. However, the precise nature of fine motor skills has received little attention in these studies. With evidence mounting that fine motor skills are an important indicator of school readiness, investigating the nature of this…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Achievement
Allocentric-Heading Recall and Its Relation to Self-Reported Sense-of-Direction
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Sholl, M. Jeanne; Kenny, Ryan J.; DellaPorta, Katherine A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
A sense of direction (SOD) computes the body's facing direction relative to a reference frame grounded in the environment. The authors report on three experiments in which they used a heading-recall task to tap the functioning of a SOD system and then correlated task performance with self-reported SOD as a convergent test of the task's construct…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Experiments, Correlation, Psychological Testing
The Construct Validity of the Rod and Frame Test.
Schroeder, David H. – 1991
This study examined the construct validity of the Rod and Frame Test (RFT). Subjects were 554 clients (269 males and 285 females) (aged 14 to 65 years) of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation (JOCRF), a vocational guidance service. In a battery of diverse ability and style tests (19 tests of the JOCRF battery and 4 tests of cognitive style),…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cognitive Style
Central Coherence in Typically Developing Preschoolers: Does It Cohere and Does It Relate to Mindreading and Executive Control?
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Pellicano, Elizabeth; Maybery, Murray; Durkin, Kevin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Frith and Happe (1994) describe central coherence (CC) as the normal tendency to integrate individual elements into a coherent whole, a cognitive style which varies in the general population. Individuals with autism are at the extreme (weak) end of the continuum of coherence. There has been debate over whether CC is independent from…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Style, Rhetoric, Autism
The Validation of Selected Spatial Ability Tests via Correlational Assessment and Analysis of User-Processing Strategy.
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Kovac, Ron J. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
The construct validity of three spatial ability tests was assessed by determining the correlation between the test results and student class grades in various subjects for 58 eighth graders enrolled at the Burris Laboratory School, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana). Results do not strongly support any of the tests evaluated. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Correlation