The purpose of the study was to investigate the possible motivational effect that knowledge of results of performance on some complex academic task might have on verbal participation in a related academic area. (Author/NH)

The test-retest stability of the Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (H-NTLA) was examined in a group of 43 hearing impaired children and adolescents. Test-retest correlations for Ss retested after approximately one year, three years, and five years were .79, .85, and .62 respectively. (Author)

The Differential Aptitude Tests-Adaptive were completed by 122 university and community career assessment center clients; 99 high school students completed the Ball Aptitude Battery. Such factors as sex, age, and cognitive ability affected the degree to which results were in accord with their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (SK)

Proposed three criteria to distinguish calendrical savants whose skills depend on memory from those who calculate and applied these to 10 calendrical savants. Results are discussed in relation to views that calendrical savants imply the existence of a modular mathematical intelligence or unconscious integer arithmetic. (SLD)

Univariate and multivariate corrections for range restriction were compared using scores of 147,288 Navy applicants on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Composite validities were corrected using the univariate and multivariate formulas. In general, multivariate corrections were more accurate than univariate corrections. This accuracy…

Conceptual ambiguity surrounds notions of gifted and talented; justification for talent development is often linked with rejection of the term gifted. Talent development should mean identification of those who show superior natural abilities as well as aptitudes for a particular domain and emphasis on developing those special skills. (SK)

The Personality Assessment System (PAS) is based on the theory that people will seek situations that use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. Studies operationalizing the theory through the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale support the use of PAS in improving person-job match and increasing self-knowledge for career development. (SK)

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth aptitude scores confirmed that differentials in union-nonunion wages are highest for workers with low measured skills and lowest for workers with high measured skills. Results suggest that unions are more successful where skills are homogenous and unionized employers are reluctant to hire both the most as well…

This study tested the specificity-generality hypothesis regarding moderation of aptitude test validity by job ability requirement differences using 24,482 Air Force enlistees in 37 jobs. Moderating effects due to job differences were not found, and job ability differences did not moderate the relationship between the amount of "g"…

We investigated processing of numerical order information and its relation to mechanisms of numerical quantity processing. In two experiments, performance on a quantity-comparison task (e.g. 2 5; which is larger?) was compared with performance on a relative-order judgment task (e.g. 2 5; ascending or descending order?). The comparison task…

As one form of small group learning, team-based learning's (TBL's) unique sequence of individual and group work with immediate feedback enables and encourages students to engage course content and each other in remarkable ways. Specifically, TBL creates an environment where students can fulfill their human need to belong in the process of…

This study investigates how 15 Design & Technology (D&T) students (aged 15 years) participated in three stages of the design process in a technology mediated environment. The three stages are named "Situation," "Ideation" and "Development." The learning process is mediated by "Knowledge Forum" (KF),…

Online discussions have been increasingly integrated into face-to-face classes at universities to enhance student learning of course content. The primary focus of past research has been on the end products of online discussions. Studies reported either successful findings or results that fell short of desired learning outcomes. An in-depth…

Introduction: Premature withdrawal from university due to academic failure can present problems for students, families and educators. In an effort to widen the understanding regarding factors predicting academic success in higher institutions, prior academic achievement measures (preparatory school grade average point (GPA), aptitude test scores,…