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Peer reviewedBrown, Scott W.; Yakimowski, Mary E. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1987
Analysis of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised protocols for identified gifted, high IQ, and average children (total N=599 and ages 5-16) identified a four-factor solution for the gifted sample (Perceptual Organization, Verbal Comprehension, Acquisition of Knowledge, and Spatial Memory). Results suggested gifted children process…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Foxley, Bruce; And Others – 1982
A sample of 21 guidance counselors was administered the full battery of Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation aptitude tests to compare scores with the "general population" (norm group). The counselors had worked in public schools, private schools or as self-employed consultants for an average of 10 years. The average age was 42. The tests, which…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textGray, Jerry L. – 1976
The primary purpose of this study was to establish normative data for the cognitive style behaviors of children from kindergarten through the ninth grade. Approximately 400 students served as subjects. The measures used were a free response pictorial-, a multiple choice pictorial-, and a multiple choice verbal-test. Cognitive style behavior was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Development
Humphreys, Lloyd G.; Davey, Timothy C. – 1983
Four tests were chosen for a study that investigated the hypothesis that individual differences in aural comprehension might anticipate individual differences in general information. A composite of eight subtest scores from the Test of General Information (TGI) was used as a measure of students' general knowledge. The Listening section of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedCampione, Joseph C.; And Others – Intelligence, 1985
Groups of retarded and nonretarded children were investigated as they learned three rules underlying problems adapted from the Raven Progressive Matrices Test: rotation, imposition, and subtraction. Results were seen as consistent with theories that emphasize transfer flexibility as one potential source of individual and comparative differences in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedPowell, J. C.; Shklov, N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
An age-dependent answer-selection sequence of answers on multiple-choice tests suggested by previous studies was supported using statistical rather than clinical means. Results with 2,810 students aged 88 months through 241 months given a reading comprehension test twice during a 5-month interval support the systematically connected age-dependent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Guilmet, George M. – 1976
A review of anthropological, psychological, and educational research pertaining to the quiet manner of American Indian students in classroom situations is presented. This phenomenon has been explained using the research perspectives of the learning style theory and interference theory. The learning style theory states that Indian children behave…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes
