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Froming, William J.; McColgan, Edgar B. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
A comparison of the two leading indices of moral development, the Defining Issues Test and the Moral Dilemma Interview, was made using 215 subjects ranging in age from 12 to 25. Correlation between the two tests was low when age, socioeconomic status, and intelligence variables were partialed out. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Developmental Tasks, Moral Development
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Birney, Damian P.; Halford, Graeme S.; Andrews, Glenda – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Relational complexity (RC) theory conceptualizes an individual's processing capacity and a task's complexity along a common ordinal metric. The authors describe the development of the Latin Square Task (LST) that assesses the influence of RC on reasoning. The LST minimizes the role of knowledge and storage capacity and thus refines the…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Psychometrics
JOHNSON, LINDA J.; RICCIUTI, HENRY D. – 1965
A MAIN PROBLEM ARISING IN THE STUDY OF CATEGORIZING BEHAVIOR IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN BY MEANS OF SORTING PROCEDURES WAS THAT PERFORMANCE APPEARED TO BE VERY MUCH A FUNCTION OF THE CHILD'S COMPREHENSION OF THE PARTICULAR VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS EMPLOYED BY THE EXPERIMENTER IN PRESENTING THE TASK. THE SPECIFIC AIMS OF THE FIRST STUDY WERE TO INVESTIGATE…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Classification, Developmental Tasks
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1990
The 56 tests in this bibliography have been designated as culture fair by their publisher or have been mentioned in the literature as being culture fair. A culture fair or culture free test is defined as one that has freedom from verbal, content, or emotional loadings that differ among cultures. Some tests on this list, described as being culture…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Tests, Culture Fair Tests, Developmental Tasks
Gerard, Harold B. – 1969
A longitudinal study to determine the conditions surrounding the integration of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Anglos in the Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California, began in school year 1965-66. The sample included students in kindergarten through grade 6. A sample of kindergarten students was added to the original sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Anglo Americans, Attitudes
Gerard, Harold B. – 1968
A longitudinal study to determine the conditions surrounding successful or unsuccessful integration of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Anglos in the Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California, began in school year 1965-66, and included kindergarten through grade 6. Test batteries placed emphasis on achievement "related…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Stereotypes, Black Students