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Peer reviewedClark, Gilbert A.; Wilson, Trudy – Roeper Review, 1991
The Clark's Drawing Abilities Test was administered to 177 secondary-level students and found to effectively identify gifted/talented visual arts students. Students draw a house, a person running, friends playing, and a fantasy drawing, and these drawings are scored on sensory, formal, expressive, and technical properties. (JDD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Freehand Drawing, Screening Tests
Peer reviewedFuchs, Douglas; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
This study analyzed user manuals and technical supplements of 27 aptitude and achievement tests to determine whether disabled children were included in development of the tests' norms, items, reliability indices, and validity indices. Most test developers provided scant evidence that their tests were valid for use with disabled students. (JDD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMills, Carol J.; Barnett, Linda Boliek – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1992
Two pilot tests with fifth and sixth graders evaluated the Secondary School Admission Test for identifying academically talented students of elementary school age. Testing indicated that mean scores for eighth and ninth grade normative samples are recommended as cutoffs for identifying highly able fifth and sixth grade students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Aptitude Tests, Early Identification
Download full textBishop, John H. – 1989
The key to high school student motivation is recognizing and rewarding academic effort. Compared to the United States, students in foreign countries study harder and their parents demand more of the schools because labor market success is determined by how much is learned in high school. Schools in the United States, however, reward students for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship
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
Hartley, Elizabeth Ann – 1986
This paper illuminates the physiological, socio-cultural, and linguistic obstacles which occur due to the interaction between American Indian cultures and the Anglo educational system and which make the identification of gifted and talented American Indian children difficult. It demonstrates the need for more culturally appropriate ways of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Access to Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
