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Morgan, Anna W.; Sullivan, Susan A.; Darden, Cindy; Gregg, Noel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study involving 30 college students with learning disabilities and 30 students without learning disabilities (ages 18-30) compared results obtained on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test. Results found no significant differences between the two groups or between tests.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, College Students, Intelligence Differences
Shearer, C. Branton – 1997
Since Howard Gardner proposed the theory of multiple intelligences as an alternative to the unitary concept of general intelligence, educators have been searching for an acceptable method of assessment. To help with this search, three studies that describe the development and validation of a self- (and parent-) report measure of children's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Measurement, Construct Validity

Pyryt, Michael C. – Roeper Review, 1996
This article examines psychometric analysis regarding the viability and limits of IQ testing in the context of "The Bell Curve." It discusses eyeball analysis versus item analysis, mean differences, validity coefficients, general intelligence, and IQ and gifted education, and urges a search for intrapersonal and environmental catalysts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Intelligence Differences
Deary, Ian J.; Whalley, Lawrence J.; Crawford, John R. – Intelligence, 2004
Change in cognitive functioning is an important aspect of human aging and a key outcome in many medical conditions. However, cognitive change can rarely be measured directly, since prior cognitive data do not exist for most people. We examined the criterion validity and one-year stability of the difference between National Adult Reading Test…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Test Validity, Cognitive Ability, Older Adults
Hunt, Earl – 1985
The scientific concept of intelligence has been heavily influenced by the technology of measurement. The variables which can be measured have been made the operational definition of intelligence. This approach differs from a deductive approach, in which a theory of cognition in general is used to derive the sorts of measurements that must be taken…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Individual Differences