This article examines the development of new strategies for the measurement of intellectual competencies of the elderly. The author depicts his own view of the direction an analysis such as this might take, and presents a strategy which attempts to generate contextual criteria relevant to the assessment of competence in adulthood and old age.…

This paper describes a hypothetical computer program capable of emulating the behavior of a human tutor. Such a program must, ideally, display a number of characteristics. It must be mixed-initiative, meaning that either student or tutor may initiate an interaction. It must be capable of understanding natural language input and generating natural…

This report reviews what is known about the role of vocabulary knowledge or knowledge of word meanings in reading comprehension. It states that while an assessment of the number of meanings a reader knows enables a remarkably accurate prediction of an individual's ability to comprehend discourse, the reasons why word knowledge correlates with…

AS PREDICTIVE TESTS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMON AND AS THEIR VALIDITY HAS INCREASED, RELEVANT QUESTIONS HAVE SHIFTED FROM WHETHER WE SHOULD TEST TO WHEN, HOW MUCH, OR WHY WE SHOULD TEST. A FIRST ISSUE IN THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PREDICTIVE TESTING IS THE RIGHT OF THE SOCIETY TO REQUIRE ITS MEMBERS TO REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES, EVEN THOUGH SUCH…

Research in this effort attempted to review evidence of the construct validity of certain measures of intellectual potential for Canadian native pupils, and to examine the relative predictive validity, over a four-year period, of several measures of general intellectual ability for a sample of Metis pupils at Faust, Alberta, and 2 samples of…

This paper attempts to show that adaptation of mathematics to the input-output model of the school can provide powerful assistance in the measurement and analysis of school quality and its determinants. The mathematical relationship described here relates an educational model to the field of electronics. More specifically, the amplifier, a device…

The paper reviews factor analytic studies concerning the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) profiles of children with learning disabilities (LD). Considered are the following topics: subtest profiles of backward readers, a sex difference in coding, and derivation and use of grouped subtest scores in profile analysis. The…

The purpose of this study is to clarify further the relationships among creative, cognitive, and affective production of students. Thirteen pairs of twins, eight monozygotic (MZ), five dyzygotic (DZ), were administered the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, MMPI, and Revised Beta Examination. The F ratio for testing significance of within-set…

Computers have undoubtedly entered the educational arena, mainly in the areas of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and artificial intelligence, but whether educators should embrace computers and exactly how they should use them are matters of great debate. The use of computers in support of educational administration is widely accepted.…

POLYFACT is a learning program that attempts to factor multivariable polynomials. The program has been successful in factoring polynomials (in simplified form) with a maximum of 84 terms, each term consisting of as many as five variables and a maximum degree of 67. The complexity of this learning task placed unusual requirements on the…

Over the past nine years 462 sophomore college students in 23 classes in General Psychology were administered at least one test of intelligence. Coefficients of correlation were computed between these scores and the scores on author-made objective subject matter tests ("Tests") and the performance on "Non-tests" (experiments, reviews,…

This report describes the development of a brief adjective checklist measure of curiosity. This checklist, designed to be used with elementary school children, is empirically-keyed and contains a built in check for rater bias. From an initial pool of 40 adjectives judged relevant to curiosity, a final set of 30 were selected after two item…

It was the purpose of this study to determine the relationship between listening ability and writing ability of three groups of sixth graders: (1) 16 white and 5 Negro children who had attended an integrated school and who had been exposed to experimental materials in written composition in the fifth grade; (2) 78 white children who had attended…

Thirty-two males were divided into high and low creative groups based on the Remote Associates Test and the Alternative Uses Tests. High creatives exhibited a lower basal alpha index, a higher basal theta index, differential amounts of alpha on creativity and intelligence tests, and were better at alpha control in a feedback situation than low…

Eighty-two 5 to 8 year old children (I.Q. range 79-120) exhibiting learning disabilities were divided equally into three groups on the basis of their Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Verbal I.Q. (VIQ) and Performance I.Q. (PIQ) scores: a high performance-low verbal group, a verbal equal to performance group, and a high verbal-low…