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Tomasello, Jenna; Brand, Betsy – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2016
How can states ensure that students who are overage or under-credit (OA/UC) not only graduate high school but are prepared for college or the workforce? Competency-based education (CBE) is one emerging strategy for addressing the needs of at-risk youth. CBE can address the needs of at-risk students because it is personalized to individual…
Descriptors: State Policy, Competency Based Education, Career Readiness, College Readiness
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Glenn, S.; Cunningham, C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
The British picture vocabulary scales (BPVS-II) and the Leiter international performance scales (Leiter-R), both restandardised in 1997, are often used in experimental studies to match individuals with intellectual impairment. Both provide a brief measure of mental age, and cover a wide ability range using a simple format. The BPVS-II assesses…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Nonverbal Ability, Intelligence Quotient, Mental Age
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Shaked, Michal; Yirmiya, Nurit – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
In this paper, we summarize some of our findings from a series of three meta-analyses and discuss their implications for autism research. In the first meta-analysis, we examined studies addressing the theory of mind hypothesis in autism. This analysis revealed that theory of mind disabilities are not unique to autism, although what may be unique…
Descriptors: Autism, Meta Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Siblings
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McDonald, Geraldine – Oxford Review of Education, 1998
Discusses the reasons for the rise in IQ scores over time. Demonstrates the effect of the decrease in age at levels of schooling on the rise in IQ scores utilizing the data from the 1936 and 1968 standardization of the Otis Intermediate Test of Mental Ability, Form A, in New Zealand. (CMK)
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Educational Change
Windes, Eustace E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin includes: (1) a general statement of present thoughts and trends, covering the accepted philosophy of purpose, influence of modern educational psychology, trends in enrollment, and the nature and trends of the present social order; (2) secondary pupil population, addressing enrollment, chronological age representation in secondary…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary Education, High Schools, Junior High Schools