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Gabriel, Dennis; Richards, Irving – 1988
A study was conducted at Cuyahoga Community College to test the relationship between student scores on timed and untimed reading comprehension and vocabulary tests, and to investigate the relationship between those scores and intelligence. The study sample included 72 students enrolled in classes at developmental, freshman, and sophomore levels.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correlation, Intelligence Tests, Reading Comprehension
Kerr, Michael; And Others – 1986
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) is purported to be less culturally biased than other, traditional measures of intellectual ability. The present study was designed to investigate three specific research questions: (1) Are there overall performance differences between Native American and non-Native American children on the WISC-R…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Correlation
Download full textO'Brien, Francis J., Jr. – 1987
The Goldstein-Scheerer Tests of Abstract and Concrete Thinking are reviewed. This evaluative summary supplements several reviews in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series. The Goldstein-Scheerer tests are used by clinicians and researchers to distinguish normal individuals (those able to engage in two qualitatively different levels of cognitive…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Tests, Concept Formation
Johnson, Kathryn Mary; And Others – 1984
Several common assumptions about human intelligence are challenged in this paper. The "bucket" theory of intelligence describes intelligence as a stable psychological characteristic which affects learning, and which, when accurately measured, predicts an individual's learning capacity. The authors reject the idea that people who have…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational History
Swift, Larry – 1977
Educators find themselves in the position of being ordered to classify pupils for remedial and compensatory programs at the same time that some of their classifying practices are being challenged both in educational research and in court. School classifications are largely the function of testing. The task for educators is to understand the state…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classification, Court Litigation, Educational Testing
Shantz, Carolyn Uhlinger – 1976
This study seeks evidence for the validity of the concept of egocentrism in children. Three standard egocentrism tests are intercorrelated to determine the degree to which they appear to be measuring a single construct (convergent validity); whether the three tasks intercorrelate more than they do with a theoretically unrelated task (discriminant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Correlation, Egocentrism
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1977
It is often the case that intelligence tests do not measure what they purport to measure, although it is commonly assumed that every test with a different name is a test of different skills, and that tests with the same name test the same skills. Spearman attempted to study the relationship between tests that supposedly measured different mental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Testing, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Murphy, Lois Barclay – 1980
This is a talk by child psychologist and therapist Lois Barclay Murphy, given at City College, New York, in 1980. The address reviews Ms. Murphy's contributions to child psychology and her study of children's coping strategies. The speech briefly outlines other developments in psychological and sociological study since the 1930s, including the use…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Coping, Environmental Influences
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Law and Education Center. – 1980
Commentary and advice in four legal areas are offered in this newsletter on educational law. First, the document outlines preventive legal review for public educators in four basic steps, including anticipation of legal challenges, evaluation of the challenges' legal merits, consideration of the policy issues raised by potential challenges, and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Law and Education Center. – 1980
To help public schools minimize litigation, this newsletter recommends constitutional and legal training for public school officials and examines relevant court cases involving school official liability, intelligence tests, and religion in the schools. According to the authors, the Maine v. Thiboutot and Owen v. City of Independence cases…
Descriptors: Administrators, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Blum, Jeffrey M. – 1978
Pseudoscience, or the process of persuasion by establishing a pretense of scientific discovery, is examined in this book in an effort to dispel false notions about the validity of various measures of intelligence and the correlations of genetics to mental ability. The history and development of concepts related to hereditary intelligence and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Research, Environmental Influences, Ethnic Groups
Smith, Susan G. – 1977
Recent legal decisions, coupled with Federal and State statutes, require the New York City Board of Education to follow definite guidelines in providing equal educational opportunities for its handicapped children. Among the problems raised are those of classification and labeling, criticized by some as a procedure that focuses more on pathology…
Descriptors: Classification, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
BERGER, STANLEY I.
THE PURPOSES OF THIS PILOT PROJECT WERE (1) TO ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF THE LOCAL PROGRAM ON BOTH INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND THE GROUP AND (2) TO INVESTIGATE THE SENSITIVITY OF THE TEST INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN EVALUATING SUCH A PROGRAM. SIXTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE ENROLLED IN THE LOCAL HEADSTART PROGRAM AND WERE ADMINISTERED THE STANFORD-BINET,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Disadvantaged, Early Experience, Evaluation Methods
Goodrich, Robert L. – 1978
Stochastic difference equations of the Box-Jenkins form provide an adequate family of models on which to base the stochastic theory of human growth processes, but conventional time series identification methods do not apply to available data sets. A method to identify structure and parameters of stochastic difference equation models of human…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Measurement, Day Care, Intellectual Development
Wiener, Florence D.; And Others – 1978
The Spanish Picture Vocabulary Test was designed to provide a Spanish-language translation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test which would be suitable for Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican school-children in New York City. The 300 stimulus words were translated according to a consensus of linguists and persons of Puerto Rican descent, and were…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Tests
