This study investigated whether a unitary elemental process or several independent processes underlie psychometric "g" (factor of general intelligence). Results with 101 college students administered 2 intelligence tests and a large battery of elementary cognitive tasks suggest that as many as 4 independent components make up…

The Chinese revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale was factor analyzed for 55 Chinese subjects with mental retardation. Results indicated a two-factor solution comprising Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Organization factors. Analysis found no important differences in factor structure between the Chinese subjects and low-intelligence…

Democracy is much broader than special political form or method of governance. Foundation of democracy is faith in human intelligence and in the power of pooled and cooperative experience. Although intelligence may be distributed in unequal amounts, each individual has something to contribute to the pooled intelligence and contributions of all.…

Educators' most pressing leadership challenge is tapping each individual's full mental capacity and evoking the highest levels of quality, performance, and productivity. Building learning communities depends on resolving issues related to quality and excellence, governance and restructuring, organizational linkages, diversity as capacity, better…

This study with 12 elementary school children with mild mental retardationship found that the relation between lexical knowledge and mental age depended upon the nature of the vocabulary test. Results suggested that mental age in this population was more strongly related to knowledge of abstract relational terms than to knowledge of labels for…

The strategy used in "Miniprof," a program designed to provide "intelligent" instruction on elementary topics in French, is described. At an erroneous response, the program engages the student in a Socratic dialog and uses three major functions: parsing, error diagnostics, and tutoring. (10 references) (Author/LB)

Examined the mediating role of the home environment on the relationship between IQs of mothers and their low birthweight children. Results indicated that the IQ of children at three years was related to maternal IQ and measures of home environment when children were one and three years of age. (BB)

Includes "Intelligence Is More than IQ" (Sternberg); "In Search of Intraterrestrial Intelligence" (Wagner); "On Changing Fundamental Conceptions of Undergraduate Experience" (Guskin); "Experience and Intelligence" (Gotlieb); "Assessing the Value of Cooperative Education" (Williams et al.); and…

Interviewed 57 11-year olds and 56 15-year olds about hopes for the future. Found that high level of family discussion increased interest in future family. Influences of parental control and family discussion changed as adolescents grew older. Adolescents with high self-esteem were more internal in their thinking about future than those with low…

The validity of the fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet (S-B IV) test was studied with 30 linguistically precocious children at ages 20, 24, and 30 months. Validity at 24 months was questionable. Problems in using the test with very young children are discussed. (SLD)

The paper examines competing models for the thinking processes of gifted students, including the Piagetian model, the Triarchic theory of R. Sternberg, and the varieties of intelligence proposed by H. Gardner. The paper offers a meta-analysis and a six realm domain for the understanding of cognitive processing propensities in gifted students. (DB)

Longitudinal studies of personality traits and intelligence have used an exponential function to relate magnitudes of correlations between occasions to the time interval. This exponential function is shown to be equivalent to a quasisimplex model of a stationary process with constant reliability. (SLD)

Achievement and intelligence test scores of a nonclinical sample of adopted and nonadopted Colorado children were compared at 7 years of age (n=415) and 12 years of age (n=230). Results provided little or no evidence for an increased risk of learning disabilities in "easily placed" adopted children. (Author/JDD)

Examined curious regressions on intelligence measure by forming high and low vocabulary groups for each sex within low-scoring subsample of general intelligence and obtaining means of groups on cognitive and self-report scales. High school students high in vocabulary relative to low intelligence composite scores had lower means than low-low…

Argues that a unique combination of (1) the Copernican Plan for block scheduling; (2) the application of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences; and (3) John Dewey's basic ideas about process create a teacher training program in which mastery is an achievable goal. Describes each component and illustrates how each has worked in one…