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Peer reviewedRaskin, Larry M.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
The authors report on two studies showing that the Slosson Intelligence Test yields higher scores than the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test for both nursery school and third-grade children, indicating that care should be taken when the SIT is used for intellectual screening. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Testing, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Quotient
Taylor, Karl K. – Community College Frontiers, 1973
Presented a number of evaluative instruments to determine if remedial students had problems which prevented them from learning and to determine if they had learning disabilities which could not be overcome simply by increased interest in education or an improved attitude toward it. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Community Colleges, Educational Attitudes, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedFletcher, Jack M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
A longitudinal evaluation of the utility of a screening battery administered in kindergarten is shown to retain a high utility for predicting current achievement outcomes of the sample at the end of grade six. The use of discriminant functional analysis and statistical decision theory is discussed. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedTelegdy, Gabriel A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
The Screening Test of Academic Readiness (STAR) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) were administered to 52 kindergarten children to reveal the convergent validity of IQ scores derived from the STAR. The findings raise doubts about the validity of the deviation IQs derived from the STAR. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Testing, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Download full textPlanning Research Corp., Washington, DC. – 1967
THIS SUMMARY OF SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS IS FROM A MAJOR REPORT TITLED "A STUDY OF THE FULL-YEAR 1966 HEAD START PROGRAMS." THE STUDY WAS DONE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PERFORMANCE OF CHILDREN ON FIVE TESTS AND RATING SCALES IS RELATED TO THE LENGTH OF THE 1966 FULL-YEAR PROGRAM WHICH THEY ATTENDED. FULL-YEAR PROGRAMS WERE CLASSED AS SHORT…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth
PIERCE-JONES, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1966
A 15-MONTH EVALUATION RESEARCH STUDY OF THE 1965 SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAMS WAS CONDUCTED THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF TEXAS. A SCHEMATIC MODEL OF INTERACTING FACTORS OPERATING THROUGH HEAD START PROGRAMS TO PRODUCE AND PREDICT CHANGES IN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND IN OUT-OF-SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT WAS DEVELOPED. THIS MODEL GENERATED THE EMPIRICAL…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Educational Environment
Meissner, Judith A.; And Others – 1972
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test is well known and widely used in testing the verbal ability of young children. In the longitudinal study, the standard Peabody test booklet was used in Year 1. In Year 2, a special ETS adaptation of the first 60 items was used, in which there were redrawings of a number of the human pictures to present black…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Developmental Vocabulary, Disadvantaged Youth
