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Peer reviewedKagan, Jerome – Social Policy, 1977
This article tackles the debate on general intelligence tests versus specific skills assessment as predictors of academic performance. In a Minneapolis study, a wide range of tests were given to 355 preschoolers. Results from a test assessing early reading skills more closely predicted actual third grade reading achievement than did results from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment, Intelligence Tests, Performance Tests
Ross, Donald R. – J Rehabil Deaf, 1970
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Intelligence
Peer reviewedBlennerhassett, Lynne; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
Investigation of criterion-related validity of test scores of 107 deaf residential adolescents found concurrent validity between the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and the Performance IQ of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, using both hearing and deaf norms. Predictive validity was supported by correlations between the SPM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Concurrent Validity
Download full textSiskind, Theresa G. – 1991
Drawing tests are often used to provide confirmatory and supporting evidence of intelligence or intellectual functioning. The relationship between scores on these types of instruments and academic achievement was studied among graduate students seeking degrees in education. The sample consisted of 125 graduate students in education (93 women and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adults, Correlation
Mercer, Jane R.; Smith, Joyce M. – 1972
An intensive analysis of the relative value of using the Vocabulary and Block Design subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to predict Full Scale IQ based on six verbal and five performance WISC subtests was conducted. The tests were administered to 1,310 6 to 11 year old Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American school children.…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Children, Elementary Education
