Twenty-seven suicidal, aggressive, or normal children (ages 10 to 12) were administered the subtest of similarities from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, a questionnaire to assess the concept of death, and a questionnaire to assess the concept of life. Results favor assumption that distortions in the death concept are specific and,…

The author argues against the accepted symptom of learning disabilities--a discrepancy between measured intelligence and measured educational achievement scores; and demonstrates that it is feasible to produce a quantitative definition of educational underachievement, and therefore to identify learning disabled students. (SBH)

The study was designed to determine not only the comparability of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the WISC-Revised (WISC-R) with 40 minimal brain dysfunction children (6-10 years old), but also to determine whether well-established, clinically useful configurations emerge in the WISC-R as they do in the WISC. (Author/SBH)

Research supports the reliability and validity of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA); but its concurrent validity with conventional intelligence tests suggests that the McCarthy General Cognitive Index and Intelligence Quotient are not comparable. The MCSA eliminates certain weaknesses found in similar tests: the Stanford-Binet and…

Seeking to compare the original Wechler Intelligence Scale (WISC) with its revised version, the WISC-R, this study compared WISC-R scores of 50 Black children with their WISC scores taken two years previously. Mean scores on the WISC-R were lower on the Verbal Scale, Performance Scale, and Full Scale. (DS)

In a study of the development of role playing, 67 seventh graders were given Feffer's Role Taking Task. Measures of the child's perception of parent behavior, IQ, Marburg Education Scales and educational attainment were collected. (MS)

No meaningful differences were found for four ethnic groups (black, Spanish, Jewish, Caucasian-Gentile) in the factor structures of the CEEB Comparative Guidance and Placement Programs Battery, thus confirming its cross-ethnic factorial validity. Thus it is recommended for use in counseling and placement functions even in institutions having…

Guilford's (1967) divergent production tests and Wallach and Kogan's (1965) associative creative thinking tests are designed to measure abilities central to the creative process. However, results with these two batteries have been used to support alternative conceptions of creative ability. This research makes a beginning at studying these tests…

Presents a descriptive analogy comparing Piaget's theory of intellectual development to the development of athletic abilities in order to provide insight into Piagetian theory. (SL)

Children (N=30) ages 6-10 were selected who had been referred for psychological evaluation from the public schools. WISC-R was significantly lower than WISC FS IQ's and similar to S-B L&M IQ's. The use of the WISC-R over the WISC will result in greater numbers of children being classified as retarded. (Author)

Levels of concept acquisition interms of attribute perception were examined for 20 different chemical concepts featuring in GCE O-level school chemistry courses. (Editor)

A battery of 28 individually administered tests, comprised of measures derived from the work of Piaget, of simple and complex learning, of language, short-term memory, long-term memory and intelligence were given to 210 children aged 5 to 6 during their first year of schooling. (Editor)

Investigates intellectual decline and attempts to determine some of the sex differences possibly inherent in the phenomena that during adolescence girls decrease in their I.Q. scores while boys increase. (Author/RK)

Standardized tests will not satisfactorily predict achievement, given the "conventional" intelligence and achievement test scores that correlate with measures of abilities deemed important by schools. (Author/IRT)