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)

While computers have a definite role to play, current language research involving artificial intelligence is headed in a wrong direction and is unlikely to contribute to a scientific theory of language. (Author/MV)

Presents a unit on the periodic table that focuses on the concept of patterns and is designed to reach students with different learning styles. Describes seven laboratory stations, each focusing on a different learning style including bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic-verbal, visual-spatial, musical, intrapersonal, and…

States that inclusion of a workable way to use conversation in the discussion of texts would help integrate Stanley Fish's notions of "interpretive communities" and pedagogical theory concerning "multiple intelligences" into classroom instruction. Describes the "Touchstones Project," designed by St. John's College…

Discusses R. Herrnstein's and C. Murray's attempt to persuade an educated white readership that they, the readers, are genetically, socially, and intellectually superior. The most effective criticisms are those that rely on scientific evidence about the manipulation of data and flawed analyses rather than the display of moral outrage. (SLD)

Discusses Margaret Mead's insights on mental retardation. Her study of intelligence scores of Italian children, which analyzed correlations between test performance, language, immigration date, and social status, is used to indicate recognition of the multicultural complexities of mental retardation. Her belief in social integration is also…