This paper is based on research and development over the last three years that set out to investigate how technology can facilitate interaction and collaborative learning between beginning teachers on a one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme. These developments drew on research into formative assessment and collaborative group…

This article reviews how a receptive, bilingual four-year-old increased her Spanish productive-language skills over five weeks as she engaged in Spanish-language play sessions with bilingual peers. The data show her growing participation in group verbal interactions along with her growing production of her weaker language. In addition, a…

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, Form 14 (ASVAB-14) is a multiple aptitude test battery designed for use for civilian, as well as military, career counseling. This manual is designed for use by school guidance counselors in administration and interpretation of results of the ASVAB-14. The 1984 revision of this instrument includes…

A study investigating interactions between imagery instructions and aptitude variables is presented. One group consisting of seven fifth-grade classes was given imagery instructions in the reading of a short text, while another group read the text in a regular way. Three different outcomes covering different types of learning were registered. As…

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which vocational interests of adolescents differed as a function of sex and aptitude. Aptitude was significantly related to six vocational interests areas. Differences between males and females in vocational interests did not change. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to confirm or deny Carry's findings in an earlier Aptitude Treatment Interaction (ATI) study by implementing his suggestions to: (1) revise instructional treatments, (2) improve the criterion measures, (3) use four predictor tests, (4) add time to criterion measure, and (5) use a theoretical model to identify relevant…

Some of the literature related to the area of instructional research, individualized instruction and student aptitude are explored in this article. (DEP)

The General Aptitude Test Battery, used by many state employment services as a counseling tool, has been criticized as an unfair screening device. A less restrictive policy of pretest coaching and retesting, combined with action research on the effects of remedial education on aptitudes scores is suggested, rather than a return to subjective…

This article re-examines data from the Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB) and General Aptitude Battery (GATB) test manuals in light of some conventionally accepted psychometric considerations. It is recommended that caution be employed in relating NATB profiles to the Occupational Aptitude Patterns' norms. (Author)

Counselors should recognize possibility that test score interpretation may decrease self acceptance of low ability students. On other students no significant differences exist between control and experimental groups. (Author/CJ)

Data from 270 men and 277 women on the Ball Aptitude Battery and personality questionnaires were used to test Lowman's matrix of expected characteristics across Holland's six vocational types. Over half of Lowman's predictions were confirmed. General cognitive ability may have affected other results. (SK)

Reviews concepts of aptitude and aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) and summarizes lessons learned in ATI research on educational treatments to help ATI research on psychotherapeutic treatments. Research design and data analysis recommendations address aptitude distributions, multivariate aptitude complexes, detective work with scatterplots,…

Although some research has examined the factorial nature of the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (MAB), none has tested hypotheses relevant to both oblique and orthogonal models via confirmatory factor analysis. Thus, in this investigation, a series of models was tested, which compared the model fit of both oblique/higher order models against a…

This study describes the development of social reasoning in school-age children. An irony task is used to assess 5-, 7-, and 9-year-olds' (N = 72) and adults' (N = 24) recursive understanding of others' minds. Guttman scale analysis demonstrates that in order to understand a speaker's communicative intention, a child needs to recognize the…