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Processing Speed and Intelligence as Predictors of School Achievement: Mediation or Unique Contribution?
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Dodonova, Yulia A.; Dodonov, Yury S. – Intelligence, 2012
The relationships between processing speed, intelligence, and school achievement were analyzed on a sample of 184 Russian 16-year-old students. Two speeded tasks required the discrimination of simple geometrical shapes and the recognition of the presented meaningless figures. Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices and the verbal subtests of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
Studies of Socioeconomic and Ethnic Differences in Intelligence in the Former Soviet Union in the Early Twentieth Century
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Grigoriev, Andrei; Lynn, Richard – Intelligence, 2009
This paper reviews the studies of socioeconomic and ethnic and racial differences in intelligence carried out in Russia/USSR during the late 1920s and early 1930s. In these studies the IQs of social classes and of ethnic minorities were tested. These included Tatars (a Caucasoid people), Chuvash and Altai (mixed Caucasoid-Mongoloid peoples), Evenk…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Racial Differences, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status
Analytical, Creative, and Practical Intelligence as Predictors of Self-reported Adaptive Functioning: A Case Study in Russia.
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Grigorenko, Elena L.; Sternberg, Robert J. – Intelligence, 2001
Studied the efficacy of the triarchic theory of intelligence as a basis for predicting adaptive functioning in a rapidly changing society, that of Russia. Results of intelligence measures administered to 452 women and 293 men show that analytical, practical, and creative intelligence all relate in some degree to self-reported everyday adaptive…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Foreign Countries, Intelligence