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The Wonderlic Personnel Test and Elementary Cognitive Tasks as Predictors of Religious Sectarianism, Scriptural Acceptance and Religious Questioning
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Bertsch, Sharon; Pesta, Bryan J. – Intelligence, 2009
Lynn, Harvey and Nyborg [Lynn, R., Harvey, J., & Nyborg, H. (in press). Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations. "Doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004".] discovered that average intelligence (IQ) co-varies with national atheism rates. Extending this work, we investigated relationships among individual IQ scores,…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Tests, Occupational Tests
Black-White Differences on IQ and Grades: The Mediating Role of Elementary Cognitive Tasks
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Pesta, Bryan J.; Poznanski, Peter J. – Intelligence, 2008
The relationship between IQ scores and elementary cognitive task (ECT) performance is well established, with variance on each largely reflecting the general factor of intelligence, or g. Also ubiquitous are Black-White mean differences on IQ and measures of academic success, like grade point average (GPA). Given C. Spearman's (Spearman, C. (1927).…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Reaction Time, Grade Point Average, Occupational Tests
Personality, Intelligence and General Knowledge
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Furnham, Adrian; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas – Learning & Individual Differences, 2006
Three studies, all on student populations, looked at the relationship between a recently psychometrised measure of General Knowledge [Irwing, P., Cammock, T., & Lynn, R. (2001). Some evidence for the existence of a general factor of semantic memory and its components. "Personality and Individual Differences," 30, 857-871], both long…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests
"Griggs v. Duke Power": Implications for College Credentialing
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O'Keefe, Bryan; Vedder, Richard – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (NJ1), 2008
This paper is about a court case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1971. Although attorneys recognize that the case is important to businesses, its impact on colleges and universities has been explored by only a few. As this paper will show, "Griggs v. Duke Power" may have enormously boosted the number of students in college and may…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Court Litigation, Academic Degrees, Minimum Competencies
The Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam as a Predictor of Training Success and Job Performance.
Hunter, John E. – 1989
The relationship between general cognitive ability and both training and job performance is reviewed. Existing scientific data show that there are large differences in training achievement and in job performance. Consequently, any good predictor of achievement or performance can yield a large gain in workforce productivity. General cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Intelligence Tests
Admissions Testing at Career College and Trade School Training Programs. Test Score Guidelines, Norms, and Student Demographics.
Wonderlic, Charles F.; And Others – 1990
This report provides a method for determining minimum score by vocational program based on the use of the Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam (SLE). The SLE has been demonstrated to be a highly accurate and reliable measure of adult cognitive ability. It is currently in use as an admissions test at many career colleges and trade schools. The SLE test…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adults, Career Education, Cognitive Tests