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Download full textSawyer, Richard; Brounstein, Paul – 1988
This paper describes the efforts of the Talent Identification Program (TIP) of North Carolina to relate American College Testing (ACT) Assessment and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of academically talented seventh graders. The study was also designed to interpret the results in the context of "concordance" studies that have been…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedBenbow, Camilla P.; Stanley, Julian C. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1982
Scores on the Math and Verbal Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of 873 mathematically talented students (eighth grade and under) revealed that boys and girls performed similarly on the verbal SAT but that boys had a significantly higher mean score on the math SAT. (CL)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics
Peer reviewedBecker, Betsy Jane – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
Item responses of 2,380 mathematically talented junior high school students (1,437 males and 943 females) were studied to determine gender differences, using the mathematical sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT-M). Girls excelled on miscellaneous items and data sufficiency items but performed less well on algebra items than boys. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing
Stanley, Julian C. – 1986
Characteristics of 292 youths (269 males and 23 females) identified by high scores (before the age of 13) on the Scholastic Aptitude Test-Mathematics as part of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University are reported. Several of the students have received Ph.D. degrees at very young ages. The young students…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Elementary Education, Family Characteristics
Peer reviewedOlszewski-Kubilius, Paula M.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1989
A study involving 38 junior-high students and their matched controls found that use of Scholastic Aptitude Test cutoff levels was valid for determining entrance into fast-paced summer classes which were teacher-paced (in this case, literature), but not necessarily valid for motivated students in self-paced classes (in this case, algebra).…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Acceleration (Education), Admission Criteria, Advanced Courses
Moore, Sara Delano; Stanley, Julian C. – 1987
From a group of 292 youth (269 male, 23 female) who scored 700-800 on the mathematical portion of the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT-M) before age 13, the subscale of 68 students who were of Asian descent (55 males, 13 females) were asked to complete a questionnaire concerning their parents' and grandparents' educational and…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Family Characteristics
Strahan, David B.; O'Sullivan, Rita – 1986
The purpose of this study was to examine for the middle grades how students' cognitive reasoning level contributes to the variability of their achievement test performance. While previous investigations have indicated that measures of reasoning development are associated with measures of achievement, few such studies have attempted to control for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests
