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Selecting for Ethnically Diverse Children Who May Be Gifted Using Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test
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Lewis, Joan D.; DeCamp-Fritson, Stephanie S.; Ramage, Jean C.; McFarland, Max A.; Archwamety, Teara – Multicultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices, the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test (NNAT), and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in selecting for ethnically diverse students who may be gifted. The participants of the study were 175 students enrolled in Grades 3-5 and Grade 8 in a…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary Education, Nonverbal Ability, Test Validity
Multinomial Modeling and the Measurement of Cognitive Processes.
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Riefer, David M.; Batchelder, William H. – Psychological Review, 1988
Multinomial modeling--a methodology that can be used to measure and study cognitive processes--is discussed, and applications are presented. This statistically based technique involves estimating hypothetical parameters that represent the probabilities of unobservable cognitive events and is compatible with computational theories of cognition.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Equations (Mathematics)
Evaluating Training Effectiveness and Trainee Achievement: Methodology for Measurement of Changes in Levels of Cognitive Competence. Manuals for Evaluation of Family Planning and Population Programs, Number 8.
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Pasquariella, Bernard G.; Wishik, Samuel M. – 1975
This Manual has been designed to provide step-by-step guidelines for conducting an evaluation of a structured training sequence. The assessment design to be presented involves essentially: the testing of a group of trainees before and after a sequence of instruction by administration of the same set of objective-form items under structured testing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement
A Decision Structure for Teaching Machines. M.I.T. PRESS Research Monograph, 14.
Smallwood, Richard D. – 1962
The problem of enabling a teaching machine to adapt to the individual characteristics of students in presenting course material has been considered--general outlines of computer algorithms and decision criteria have been formulated. It is assumed that there exists both an ordered set of concepts which comprise the material to be learned and, for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Concept Teaching
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
Issues in Measurement and Methodology: CSE's 1978 Conference.
Burry, James, Ed.; Quellmalz, Edys S., Ed. – Evaluation Comment, 1978
Abstracts are presented of the major conference papers and thematic discussions delivered at the 1978 Measurement and Methodology Conference. The titles of the presentations are: Policy-Responsive Evaluation (Wiley); When Educators Set Standards (Glass); Comments on Wiley and Glass (Schutz); Key Standard-Setting Considerations for Minimal…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Conference Reports