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Peer reviewedSmith, Philip A.; Marx, Ronald W. – Psychology in the Schools, 1971
The revised ITPA promises to have continued wide application. It successfully measures general linguistic ability and intelligence, and to a limited extent it successfully measures aspects of cognitive ability. However, it fails to measure many of the cognitive domains that it was designed to measure. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Factor Analysis, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedBauer, David H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1971
The results of this study suggest that instructions are a source of information to students about the testing environment that modifies their test-taking behavior. Individual students interpret the same instructions in different ways, and these differences, in turn, result in variations in behavior reflected in test scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns, Instruction
Peer reviewedWalsh, John F.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1971
The data of the present study supplement those given by Vane and also provide a context in which to assess the differential abilities of Negro and Puerto Rican Head Start Children on verbal and performance tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten Children
