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Measuring Ability, Speed, or Both? Challenges, Psychometric Solutions, and What Can Be Gained from Experimental Control
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Goldhammer, Frank – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
The main challenge of ability tests relates to the difficulty of items, whereas speed tests demand that test takers complete very easy items quickly. This article proposes a conceptual framework to represent how performance depends on both between-person differences in speed and ability and the speed-ability compromise within persons. Related…
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude Tests, Reaction Time, Test Items
Individual Differences in Formal Thought: Role of Expectations and Aptitudes.
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Linn, Marcia C.; Swiney, John F., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
To investigate the role expectation based rules governing formal reasoning performance, a battery of group and individual aptitude measures and formal reasoning tests were administered to 17-year-olds. Individual differences in usage of these rules were clarified by establishing an overlap between an aptitude model and formal reasoning.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Expectation
Modeling Aptitude Test Validity from Cognitive Components.
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Whitely, Susan E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Several issues about component validity are examined by using covariance modeling to test hypotheses about the relationships between components, aptitude, and achievement. Support was found for cognitive components to model individual differences in verbal aptitude, decompose test validity, and differentially predict achievement. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Style, Higher Education
Back to Binet: The Case against the Use of IQ Tests in the Schools.
Hilliard, Asa G., III – Diagnostique, 1989
This paper discusses applications of intelligence tests in schools, considering Binet's original warnings that his tests were primarily useful for identifying students needing intervention and inappropriate for classifying normal students. American applications of Binet's work for ranking are seen as stages of shifting from remedial to custodial…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Handicap Identification
An Overview of Current Research on Aptitude Processes.
Snow, Richard E. – 1977
A vast literature in educational psychology attests to the fact that individual differences in learner aptitudes predict learning outcomes. A substantial body of literature also demonstrates that aptitude variables often interact with instructional treatment variables in these predictions. Aptitude main effects and aptitude-instructional treatment…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Conceptual Schemes, Individual Differences
Pro IQ Testing: We're Not the Bad Guys.
Richardson, John C. – Diagnostique, 1989
This essay presents arguments in favor of continuing individualized intelligence testing in schools. Issues discussed include questions of validity in the concept of intelligence and its testing, ethical issues, legal issues, racial/minority and cultural issues, poor correlation between test results and teaching, and alternatives proposed by…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Gifted