The purpose of this research was to determine what effects, if any, widening or narrowing the response repertoire has on measures of IQ and problem solving of preschool children. It was predicted that response widening, or creative/divergent thinking, would have a positive effect on IQ and problem solving. Forty-one preschool children 3 to 6 years…

The paper provides a theoretical framework for the inclusion of a verbal intelligence test as part of the psychodiagnostic assessment battery used with deaf children. Descriptions are provided for three selected sign language varieties being used in a study designed to examine performance of 30 deaf children (9-16 years old) on signed…

One important source of biological determinants to intellectual behavior is the immediate family of origin. When family history is taken into consideration, it is necessary to examine the environmental aspects of intellectual development in conjunction with the biological. Herein lies the usefulness of a transactional model of development over…

This study investigated the self-reported fears and some personality characteristics of a sample of 1112 adolescents ranging in age from 12 to 18 years (attending grammar and secondary schools in Northern Ireland). (CS)

It is important for counselors to understand the problems involved in testing students and also how to properly evaluate test results. This article discusses both areas. (HMV)

Suggests that the iconic memory impairment of retarded subjects is attributable in part to mental retardation and not simply to low mental age. (Author/ED)

We investigated the properties of the distribution of human solution times for Traveling Salesperson Problems (TSPs) with increasing numbers of nodes. New experimental data are presented that measure solution times for carefully chosen representative problems with 10, 20, . . . 120 nodes. We compared the solution times predicted by the convex hull…

The present effort had two major thrusts: 1.) to study the behavioral consequences of communicating group test scores to teachers and 2.) to investigate the behavioral outcomes of antecedent teacher attitudes toward testing. (Author)

The principal author of Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effects of Family and Schooling in America (1972) comments on three reviews of the book. For related articles see TM 501 196-199. (MLP)

Findings suggest that Vernon's hierarchical paradigm constitutes a useful framework for interpreting WISC and ITPA results for reading disabled students. (RB)

Concludes that the addition of Digit Span and Mazes in the WISC battery serves to depress verbal, performance, and full scale IQs of the high achieving students. (RB)

Results by 30 disadvantaged and 30 nondisadvantaged first grade rural children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the modified Blind Learning Aptitude Test confirmed two hypotheses on product-dominant and process-dominant tests. (MC)

Fifty college students rated themselves and a friend on intelligence, and were then divided into high and low acceptance groups using a self-ideal discrepancy. The high acceptance group rated themselves higher on self concept, and rated their friend's intelligence as being similar to their own. Results are discussed in terms of the trait…

Intelligent instructional systems can be distinguished from more conventional approaches by the automation of instructional interaction and choice of strategy. This approach promises to reduce the costs of instructional materials preparation and to increase the adaptability and individualization of the instruction delivered. Tutorial simulation…

The purposes of this study were to investigate the concepts of reading of first-grade and third-grade children, to describe the relationship of these concepts to the children's intelligence and reading achievement, and to investigate the differences between the concepts of reading of first and third graders. The subjects for the study were 30…