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Predictive Validity of a Competence-Based Admission Test--Mentors' Assessment of Student Teachers' Occupational Aptitude
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Bieri Buschor, Christine; Schuler Braunschweig, Patricia – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The aim of this longitudinal study was to gain an understanding of how Swiss student teachers (n = 253), who had passed a competence-based admission test, were assessed by their mentors after the first year of teaching. The results revealed a high correlation between the students' initial cross-curricular competencies (CCC) and their mentors'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation
The Applicability of Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing for Cognitive Ability Measurement in Organizational Assessment
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Makransky, Guido; Glas, Cees A. W. – International Journal of Testing, 2013
Cognitive ability tests are widely used in organizations around the world because they have high predictive validity in selection contexts. Although these tests typically measure several subdomains, testing is usually carried out for a single subdomain at a time. This can be ineffective when the subdomains assessed are highly correlated. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Adaptive Testing, Feedback (Response)
A Comparison of Teachers' and School Psychologists' Perceptions of the Importance of CHC Abilities in the Classroom
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Fiorello, Catherine A.; Thurman, S. Kenneth; Zavertnik, Jennifer; Sher, Robert; Coleman, Schehera – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The broad cognitive abilities defined by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory have been shown to predict school achievement. However, the ecological validity of these constructs has not been studied in classroom settings. This study compares ratings by a sample of teachers (n = 53) and school psychologists (n = 86) of the importance of the CHC…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Counselor Attitudes
Prediction of Childhood Intelligence from Habituation in Early Infancy.
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Rose, David H.; And Others – Intelligence, 1986
This study investigated whether measures of habituation and dishabituation in early infancy predicted later intelligence. Results were compared with those from other comparable studies. It was argued that the psychometric acceptability of infant cognitive measures needs to be demonstrated before they can be considered to be potential predictors.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation, Habituation
A Correlational Study of Academic Self-Concept, Intellectual Achievement Responsibility, Social Cognition,
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Taylor, Louise Kathleen; Michael, William B. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1981
The importance of theory and experimental findings in giving direction, structure, and comprehensibility to research about self-concept is discussed. Analysis of the necessary affective variables to be included in the systematic experimentally-based development of effective educational programs in the affective domain is emphasized. (Author/AL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation
McCarthy Scales, McCarthy Screening Test, and Kaufman's McCarthy Short Form Correlations with the Peabody Individual Achievement Test.
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Naglieri, Jack A.; Harrison, Patti L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Examined the relationships between the McCarthy Scales General Cognitive Index, the McCarthy Screening Test, Kaufman's McCarthy short form, and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test using a sample of elementary students. Found the Estimated General Cognitive Index by Kaufman's short form was virtually identical to the McCarthy Scales Index.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Testing, Correlation
Effectiveness of Two Ways of Teaching Grammar to Students of Different Ability Patterns. Final Report.
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King, F. J.; And Others. – 1969
This research report recounts the procedures, results, and recommendations of a research project in which more than 200 tenth-grade students in Florida were tested (1) to determine whether aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) effects on syntactic maturity and on knowledge of structural relationships occur after several months of instruction; (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Measurement