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Peer reviewedHegarty, Mary; Richardson, Anthony E.; Montello, Daniel R.; Lovelace, Kristin; Subbiah, Ilavanil – Intelligence, 2002
Developed a standardized self-report scale of environmental spatial ability, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale and evaluated it in six studies with 544 college students. Results supported the reliability of the scale and suggested that the scale is related to tasks that require one to update location in space as a result of self-motion.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals), Reliability
Hockey, A.; Geffen, G. – Intelligence, 2004
To determine whether the visuospatial n-back working memory task is a reliable and valid measure of cognitive processes believed to underlie intelligence, this study compared the reaction times and accuracy of performance of 70 participants, with performance on the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (MAB). Testing was conducted over two sessions…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Validity, Test Reliability

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