The purpose of this research was to use a Tennessee high school as a research site to assess the impact of H. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) on students' academic successes in 10th grade English, social studies, mathematics, and science classes. The research used a two-part minimally intrusive data collection protocol. The student…

This document consists of articles 23 through 26 published in the electronic journal "Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation" in 2001: (23) "Effects of Removing the Time Limit on First and Second Language Intelligence Test Performance" (Jennifer Mullane and Stuart J. McKelvie); (24) "Consequences of (Mis)use of the Texas Assessment of…

A museum can talk to its audience through a variety of channels, such as Web sites, help desks, human guides, brochures. A considerable effort is being made by museums to integrate these different means. The Web site can be designed to be reachable or even updateable from visitors inside the museum via touchscreen and wireless devices. But these…

The Kingdom of Swaziland, made up primarily of people of Swazi ethnicity, has gone through dramatic social, political, and economic changes throughout this century, due in no little part to colonial and post-colonial influences. But because the political state reflects the ethnic homogeneity of its people, traditions have changed more slowly than…

There was widespread initial interest and use of intelligence tests in the schools immediately after World War I; this interest is reflected in the fact that "Reader's Guide to Periodic Literature" indexed nearly 300 articles on intelligence tests in the 5-year period from 1919-1924 alone. The history of intelligence testing and the…

Knowing and having just learned are not exactly the same thing. Neither is the fact that a student can think necessarily evidence that he has been taught. This provocative study raises more questions than it answers. (Editor)

The present study reports two investigations; the first concerning the relationship between WISC verbal-performance IQ discrepancy and reading and spelling retardation, the second representing an analysis of the spelling errors made by these children. (Author)

This paper described findings which accounted for the coexistence of positive and negative results in previous reports and showed how the findings can be explained by a theory of the origin of handedness. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present report was to evaluate, through a critical review of the relevant literature, the technical characteristics of intellective tests which were in frequent use in Alberta elementary schools. (Author)

Discusses a study of reading comprehension of fourth grade students by an instrument constructed by the investigator and based upon Piaget's developmental construct of intelligence. (TO)

Considered the plight of educationally deprived boys of high intelligence who fall afoul of the law and a teaching program at a school,designed to bring errant boys back to the community to lead productive lives. (RK)

Article investigated the relations between the types of error and their connections with auditory discrimination and auditory memory. (Editor/RK)

In this paper, the relation between heritability and sources of group differences is analyzed in terms meaningful to the nonmathematician. (Author)