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Makransky, Guido; Mortensen, Erik Lykke; Glas, Cees A. W. – Assessment, 2013
Narrowly defined personality facet scores are commonly reported and used for making decisions in clinical and organizational settings. Although these facets are typically related, scoring is usually carried out for a single facet at a time. This method can be ineffective and time consuming when personality tests contain many highly correlated…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Personality Measures, Accuracy
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Kovas, Y.; Petrill, S. A.; Plomin, R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
The authors assessed 2,502 ten-year-old children, members of 1,251 pairs of twins, on a Web-based battery of problems from 5 diverse aspects of mathematics assessed as part of the U.K. national curriculum. This 1st genetic study into the etiology of variation in different domains of mathematics showed that the heritability estimates were moderate…
Descriptors: Etiology, National Curriculum, Genetics, Twins