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Stability and Change in Broad and Narrow Factors of Intelligence from Ages 12 to 15 Years.
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Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Undheim, Johan Olav – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The stability of some dimensions of ability between the ages of 12 and 15 years was investigated for 225 boys and 242 girls in Sweden. Testing in grades 6, 8, and 9 indicated high stability for the general intelligence factor and for the residual of the General Visual factor. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Testing
The Performance of the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure across Samples and Matching Criteria.
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Ryan, Katherine E. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1991
The reliability of Mantel-Haenszel (MH) indexes across samples of examinees and sample sizes and their robustness to item context effects were investigated with data for 670 African-American and 5,015 white students from the Second International Mathematics Study. MH procedures can be used to detect differential item functioning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Testing, Context Effect, Evaluation Criteria
A Comparative Analysis of English and Spanish Reading Performance of Mexican American Students.
Cervantes, Robert A.; Bernal, Helen Hazuda – 1976
A South Texas survey conducted in 1975 investigated the reading performance of Mexican American students enrolled in a bilingual program to determine whether or not students achieved significantly different reading scores on parallel Spanish and English versions of an appropriate test (Guidance Testing Associates Inter-American Test of Reading).…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing