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Vance, Booney – 1979
The paper examines the usefulness of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) subtest score pattern for distinguishing between groups of handicapped children, specifically learning disabled and emotionally disturbed students. The author asserts that no single clear cut pattern characteristic of either population is likely to…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Diagnostic Tests, Emotional Disturbances
Rowe, Helga A. H. – 1980
An exploratory study was undertaken to provide a means of quantifying some of the components of the problem solving process. The focus was on actual problem solving behaviors and strategies as they occurred in relation to different cognitive tasks and subject characteristics. Cognitive tasks included items from Wechsler and Binet intelligence…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Download full textBadger, Earladeen; And Others – 1974
This paper describes an intensive educational program for mother-infant pairs from disadvantaged populations. The program had three aims: (1) to help the mothers understand that the way they interact with their infants makes an important difference in the child's development; (2) to encourage and teach mothers to respond to infant vocalizing and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits, Infants
Pikulski, John J. – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the assessment of intelligence as it relates to reading. Its primary focus is upon criteria that might be applied to the information about intelligence and how it relates to reading. The contents include: "General Considerations," which discusses the concept of intelligence, measuring instruments…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Reading
Shearer, C. Branton – 1997
Since Howard Gardner proposed the theory of multiple intelligences as an alternative to the unitary concept of general intelligence, educators have been searching for an acceptable method of assessment. To help with this search, three studies that describe the development and validation of a self- (and parent-) report measure of children's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Measurement, Construct Validity
Jones, James A. – 2003
The Multiple Intelligences Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS) instrument was developed to measure eight constructs of intelligence. The 119-item MIDAS provides scores for 26 subscales in addition to the 8 major scales. Using the 26 subscales, a factor structure was developed on half of a U.S. sample of college students (n=834), while the…
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedMcCurry, Susan M.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores of 216 elderly Alzheimer's Disease patients based on 3 sets of recent age-extended norms were compared. Results demonstrate the importance of reporting the normative sample on which IQ scores for older adults are based and provide guidelines for selecting a set of age-related norms. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease, Comparative Analysis
Smith, Douglas K.; And Others – 1992
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test were administered in counterbalanced order to a sample of 39 school identified students (28 males and 11 females) with learning disabilities. Mean age was 9 years, 3 months. The WISC-III Full Scale IQ and K-BIT IQ Composite produced a correlation of .74 (p…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Elementary Education
Hutchens, Teresa A.; And Others – 1991
The question of reliability in the intellectual assessment of young children is cause for concern among developmental psychologists and diagnosticians. The issue of reliability is confounded by normal variability in skills during early childhood, by the problem of consistency across time of age-appropriate assessment measures, and by the selection…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Measurement Techniques
Braden, Jeffery P. – 1989
The literature describing deaf persons' intelligence was subjected to a quantitative and qualitative review in this analysis of 85 studies containing independent samples of 43,177 deaf subjects. First, bibliometric analyses were conducted to define the scope, dissemination, and trajectory of the research investigating deafness and Intelligence…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Deafness, Environmental Influences, Genetics
Massman, Paul J.; Nussbaum, Nancy L. – 1987
The relationship between hyperactivity and neuropsychological test performance at different age levels was investigated with 90 children 6-8 years old and 92 children 9-12 years old. Subjects were administered a battery of neuropsychological tests, and a parent completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBC). Young children demonstrated no…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Attention Deficit Disorders
Hernandez, Arthur E.; Willson, Victor – 1984
Scores of two groups of White and Hispanic children at 11 age levels from 2.5 years to 12.5 years were assessed. The scores were drawn from the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), an individually administered assessment battery designed to measure intelligence and achievement and intended for minority group assessment. Reliability…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Error of Measurement, Hispanic Americans
Rodriguez, Maria D.; And Others – 1985
Two studies were performed with Puerto Rican children and adolescents in Puerto Rico and Connecticut to determine the reliability and predictive validity of the Spanish translation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, the Escala de Inteligencia Wechsler para Ninos-Revisada (EIWN-R). Results suggest that the EIWN-R is a reliable…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Scott W.; Yakimowski, Mary E. – 1984
The purpose of this study was to replicate previous factor analytical studies of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) employing children identified as gifted. However, rather than using the IQ criterion, a child's 11 WISC-R subtest scores were included in the analysis. Subsamples of gifted (as classified by local school…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
Bryan, Tanis – 1978
The presentation reviews the empirical data concerning the existence and types of language problems experienced by learning disabled (LD) and reading disabled (RD) children. An introductory section provides criteria for classification as LD in research samples and a discussion of research data sources in the field of language assessment. Section…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
