Birth weight above and below 2,500 grams was compared with intellectual performance and school achievement at ages 10 and 13 for 874 students in a Swedish community. Results indicated that low birth weight girls, but not low birth weight boys, suffered in their school performance. (Author/JDD)

Presents a statistical model for predicting the performance of an automated keywording system on each document it keywords. Methods of text analysis are described, including statistical methods, discriminant analysis, linguistic approaches, and artificial intelligence; performance measures are discussed; and regression models are explained. (16…

Examined the attitudes of a sample of 95 high school students concerning the relationship between education, intelligence, background, and occupational attainment. Advises that less advantaged students be made aware of occupational opportunities, and of the distinction between school learning and on-the-job performance. (DM)

Twenty-six precocious preschoolers exhibited high frequencies of dramatic and associative play. Girls engaged in more cooperative and less solitary play than boys. Elder children participated in more solitary, parallel, and less cooperative and less dramatic play than younger peers. The higher intelligence quotient group undertook less…

Two classification procedures for identifying children with reading disabilities were compared, differing in their use of intelligence quotient (IQ). Results indicated that abandoning IQ in classification had a very limited impact on the number of children identified as reading disordered, but that use of IQ resulted in more high-IQ children being…

Ten years ago, founders of the Key School, in Indianapolis, Indiana, studied Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and applied it to curricula for gifted and talented students. Present school benefits wide range of students and boasts seven classroom generalists and numerous full-time specialists. The model stresses all seven…

Data are presented on body weight and cranial capacity for 211 young adult male Caucasians (postsecondary students). The data do not support Rushton's claim for a greater weight-adjusted cranial capacity of Mongoloid males. Speed and efficiency of cortical information processing may be more important for intelligence than brain size. (SLD)

Examined relationship between Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT), Stanford-Binet, two-subtests short form, and Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (K-TEA) with population of 75 academically referred students. K-BIT correlated significantly with Stanford-Binet and K-TEA Math, Reading, and Spelling scores. Results support use of K-BIT as…

Argues that the cognitive mechanisms in human creativity are, for the most part, sighted rather than blind. Reviews attempts to apply evolutionary ideas to psychology and argues that these ideas do not apply to the psychology of human creativity. An alternative sighted-variation framework is then proposed. (Author/CR)

Discusses the trend toward identifying all children as gifted and the stripping of quality from gifted-child education. Argues that well-intentioned efforts to reform schools by introducing gifted-child education strategies for all students have watered down the offerings for many of the most gifted students. (CR)

Analysis of the essays of 3,514 Minnesota secondary students indicated that the majority (53.8%) would choose to be the smartest student in their class rather than the best-looking or the most athletic. Content analysis data, however, suggested significant awareness of an anti-intellectual stigma advanced by peers. (Author/CR)

Discusses issues of validity and fairness in the use of intelligence tests for job selection. Expands set of constructs used to predict job performance and sets of performance criteria used to quantify job performance. Presents an agenda for research and practice in job selection and training for the future. (MMU)

A study involving 27 elementary children with hearing impairments indicated positive, moderate correlation between the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 2nd edition, (TONI-2) IQ, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 3rd edition, Performance IQ that supported concurrent validity. The TONI-2 had predictive value for Stanford Achievement…

Presents a set of 22 sequentially structured statements on the nature and origin of human abilities, gifts, and talents. The statements are grouped into three sections: the nature of human abilities, individual differences and their origins, and the specific case of gifts and talents. (Author/CR)

Responds to the previous article, which proposed a set of 22 sequentially structured statements on the nature and origin of human abilities, gifts, and talents. Takes issue with the distinction made between natural abilities and systematically developed abilities, and thus the distinction between giftedness and talent. (Author/CR)