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Peer reviewedKissane, Barry V. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1986
This study concerns the selection of mathematically talented students at the beginning of secondary school in Australia, using a version of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Age and sex differences were found. Younger and older students responded to SAT items in qualitatively different ways. (MNS)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Educational Research
Download full textPiburn, Michael; Enyeart, Morris – 1985
A sample of 217 students (from grades 4 to 8) who were enrolled in an elementary school science-oriented gifted and talented program were compared to 91 mainstreamed subjects in grades 7 through 10. Assessement instruments included: a battery of Piagetian measures designed to assess combinatorial reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, and the ability…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedStocking, Vicki Bartosik; Goldstein, David – Roeper Review, 1992
Course selection of 795 gifted adolescents in a summer residential program differed along traditional gender lines in mathematics, science, and writing/literature. Girls and boys performed equally well in all types of classes; main effects in achievement and motivation were found only for type of class. The Scholastic Aptitude Test served as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Course Selection (Students), Gifted
