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Shayer, Michael; Ginsburg, Denise; Coe, Robert – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: "Volume & Heaviness" was one of three Piagetian tests used in the CSMS survey in 1975/76. However unlike psychometric tests showing the Flynn effect--that is with students showing steady improvements year by year requiring tests to be restandardized--it appeared that the performance of Y7 students has recently been…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Females, Males, Intelligence
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Tirri, Kirsi; Nokelainen, Petri – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
This study examined the ethical sensitivity of 2 Finnish urban schools' 7th- to 9th-grade students (N = 249) with the Ethical Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ESSQ), based on Narvaez' (2001) operationalization of ethical sensitivity. Three research questions were formulated: (1) Are the psychometric properties of ESSQ scientifically valid? Are…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academically Gifted, Psychometrics, Ethics