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Cristan Farmer; Audrey Thurm; Tanvi Das; E. Martina Bebin; Jonathan A. Bernstein; Elizabeth Berry-Kravis; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Charis Eng; Thomas Frazier; Antonio Y. Hardan; Alexander Kolevzon; Darcy A. Krueger; Julian A. Martinez-Agosto; Hope Northrup; Craig M. Powell; Latha Valluripalli Soorya; Joyce Y. Wu; Mustafa Sahin – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Developmental domains, such as cognitive, language, and motor, are key concepts of interest in longitudinal studies of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Normative scores (e.g., IQ) are often used to operationalize performance on standardized tests of these concepts, but it is the interval-distributed person-ability scores that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Disability
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Oakland, Thomas; Wechsler, Solange Muglia – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2016
This article provides guidelines for an entry-level course that prepares psychology students and practitioners to acquire entry-level skills, abilities, knowledge, and attitudes important to the individual assessment of intellectual abilities of children and youth. The article reviews prominent international, regional, and national policies,…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Intelligence Tests, School Psychology, School Psychologists
Armour-Thomas, Eleanor – 1986
The use of standardized tests and test data to detect and address differences in cognitive styles is advocated here. To this end, the paper describes the componential theory of intelligence addressed by Sternberg et. al. This theory defines the components of intelligence by function and level of generality, including: (1) metacomponents: higher…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Diagnostic Tests
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Whimbey, Arthur – Educational Leadership, 1985
Research suggests that special tests of reasoning ability are superfluous. Reading comprehension and algebra scores on common aptitude and achievement tests are highly correlated with scores on several reasoning tests. Furthermore, three programs in reasoning skills have been shown to improve reading comprehension scores in various settings. (MCG)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests
Facione, Peter A. – 1991
The California Critical Thinking Skills Test: College Level (CCTST) is a standardized test that targets core college-level critical thinking skills. It has been characterized as the best commercially available critical thinking skills assessment instrument. Building from CCTST validation studies in 1989 and 1990, this paper proposes avenues for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, College Students, Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment