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Measuring Perceptual Skills That Are Related to the Learning Task.
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Taylor, Nancy E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Focusing primarily on learning disabled children, the article briefly reviews the literature related to perceptual skills required in reading acquisition and the validity of current perceptual measures to tap these task-related perceptual abilities, and proposes an informal task-related measure to overcome the drawbacks of more formal measures of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Literature Reviews, Perception, Perception Tests
Convergent-Discriminant Validity of the Jewish Employment and Vocational Service System.
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Tryjankowski, Elaine M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
The study evaluated the construct validity of five perceptual traits with simulated work samples from the Jewish Vocational Service Work Sample System. Results with 36 learning disabled adolescents indicated that simulated work samples can be used as a diagnostic instrument for assessment of perceptual abilities in a vocational setting. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Perception, Perception Tests, Secondary Education
The Validity of Perceptual Tests: The Debate Continues. Rebuttal
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McCarthy, James J.; Larsen, Stephen C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1976
Presented are a rebuttal and a counter-rebuttal to an earlier article questioning the educational usefulness of perceptual tests with learning disabled children. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perception Tests
The Use of Selected Perceptual Tests in Differentiating Between Normal and Learning Disabled Children
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Larsen, Stephen C.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1976
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Identification
How Adequate is the Concept of Perceptual Deficit for Education?
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Zach, Lillian; Kaufman, Judith – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1972
Performances on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and on a visual discrimination task using the same forms were found not to be related. Implication for identification of perceptual deficiencies and subsequent perceptual training are discussed. (KW)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Learning Disabilities
Some Cautions on the Use of the Frostig Test: A Factor Analytic Study
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Smith, Philip A.; Marx, Ronald W. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1972
Evaluation of the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception found that it measured a single general factor of perceptual organization which was weakly related to IQ and unrelated to reading ability. (KW)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Factor Analysis, Identification