Investigated the criterion-related validity of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI) for 30-month-old children (N=122). Results showed that MCDI scales correlated with cognitive but not motor development as measured by the McCarthy scales. The MCDI accurately identified children performing below normal in general cognitive development.…

Identifies the types of questions in standardized reading tests to reveal whether the tests cover various comprehension skills and measure students' growth in higher skills from year to year. (AEA)

In this interview, Al Canfield relates his professional experiences; defines "characteristic treatment intervention"; summarizes research about learning styles and their assessment and its implications for instruction; answers criticisms about learning styles research; considers the desirability of changing a student's learning style;…

Children were asked to judge the life qualities of a stimulus, justify their judgment, and judge again, after being given an anomalous probe. Analysis indicated younger children were unable to adhere to an original judgment when probed, while older children were. Results may reconcile previous empirical discrepancies in Piagetian research.…

A model is proposed for analyzing ability tests which utilizes a cognitive approach to understanding test items and latent trait analysis for quantifying subjects responses to test items. The model adopts a multicomponent perspective on the processes involved in answering test items. (JKS)

The decline of the psychometric paradigm for studying intelligence was due in part to its failure to meet four challenges. On the surface, users of the information-processing paradigms seem successfully to have met these challenges, but at a deeper level, the level of success is not so great. (Author/BW)

Role-taking ability and level of moral development were measured in three groups of boys and girls including 16 moderately retarded adolescents (mean chronological age 15; mean mental age 9), 16 nonretarded adolescents matched for chronological age, and 16 nonretarded children matched for mental age. (CM)

Male delinquents (N=53) were classified as either psychopathic, neurotic, immature, or socialized-aggressive. The relationships of several cognitive characteristics to membership in the groups were investigated. Group differences in perception of others provides insight for treatment approaches. (Author/RC)

Examined the effectiveness of repertory grids in assessing cognitive complexity as a correlate of creativity. Literary personnel and audiovisual representatives completed grids. Significant differences were found between creative writers and their literary controls; the grids failed to discriminate between greater and lesser creativity in the…

Discusses problems involved in testing Piaget's hypothesis of topological primacy in representational space by copying geometric figures. (Author/SS)

Employed a modified dual task approach with 7- to 9-year olds to determine whether one of the classic M-power measures, the digit placement task, is indeed capacity-limited. Found that several critical assumptions concerning the use of the dual-task procedure were met; further testing revealed that the digit placement task is indeed…

Reports the results of the first joint confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities-3rd Edition (WJ III). Results of these analyses do not support the construct validity of the CAS as a measure of the PASS (planning, attention, simultaneous, and sequential)…

Evaluated relationship between Cognitive Levels Test (CLT) and two tests of academic achievement: Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests (WRAT) and KeyMath Diagnostic Arithmetic Test (KeyMath). Findings from children in kindergarten through second grade showed CLT to be rather highly correlated with KeyMath scores, modestly correlated with WRAT total…

Examines practical implications for assessing child's cognitive development and then facilitating developmental growth. Presents concepts of developmental counseling and therapy as systematic framework to integrate neo-Piagetian developmental theory into interview. Example of treatment of case of child abuse illustrates concept in action.…