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Download full textSambo, Aminu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper examines students' performance in Non-verbal Intelligence tests relative academic achievement of some selected secondary school students. Two hypotheses were formulated with a view to generating data for the ease of analyses. Two non-verbal intelligent tests viz: Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and AH[subscript 4] Part II…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests
Direct linkParkin, Jason R.; Beaujean, A. Alexander; Firmin, Michael W.; Qiu, Xiao; Firmin, Ruth L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
In this study, we examined the factor structure, reliability, and external validity of scores from the Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-Second Edition (CTONI-2) using an independent sample of young adults currently enrolled in a postsecondary institution. Although the subtests appear to be measuring general intelligence, the aggregate…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Tests, Intelligence Tests, Factor Structure, Test Reliability
Balboni, Giulia; Naglieri, Jack A.; Cubelli, Roberto – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
The concurrent and predictive validities of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) and Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) were investigated in a large group of Italian third-and fifth-grade students with different sociocultural levels evaluated at the beginning and end of the school year. CPM and NNAT scores were related to math and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity, Nonverbal Tests
Lakin, Joni M.; Lohman, David F. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
Effective talent-identification procedures minimize the proportion of students whose subsequent performance indicates that they were mistakenly included in or excluded from the program. Classification errors occur when students who were predicted to excel subsequently do not excel or when students who were not predicted to excel do. Using a…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Predictive Validity, Nonverbal Tests, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedWatson, Betty; And Others – Volta Review, 1986
A study examining the relationship between nonverbal intelligence and academic achievement in 53 hearing impaired 7-18 year olds supported using the Hickey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (along with other measures) in interpreting individual differences in the academic achievement of hearing impaired students. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Nonverbal Ability
Peer reviewedUlissi, Stephen Mark; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Fifty hearing-impaired elementary-school students completed the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children; scores correlated highly with scores from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and with school achievement. The Simultaneous Processing Scale and the Nonverbal Scale seemed appropriate for hearing-impaired children while the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMullen, Joann – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Reviews research concerning relationship of nonverbal ability measures recommended for hearing impaired students and learning potential. Reviews both earlier studies indicating that nonverbal measures could be used to predict academic achievement and more recent studies urging caution or suggest questionable predictability when interpreting data.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedSaigh, Philip A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1981
Moderate correlations were observed between the grade point average and nonverbal battery IQ scores of the Lorge Thorndike Intelligence Test administered to 27 elementary school students representing 12 countries during their first semester at a private American school overseas. Reasons are cited for additional research needs in the United States…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Effects of Metacognitive Skills and Nonverbal Ability on Academic Achievement of High School Pupils.
Peer reviewedMaqsud, M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1997
Reports the findings of two experiments conducted with South African senior high school students to examine the relationships of metacognitive strategies and nonverbal reasoning ability to test performance in mathematics and English comprehension. Suggests that teaching metacognitive strategies to students who lack such skills may improve their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHaldimann, Martha – International Schools Journal, 1999
Tested the spatial ability of 423 sixth-grade students in international schools around the world, using the Institute for Academic Advancement of Youth's Spatial Test Battery (STB). Results showed the STB's ability to predict the future academic success of sixth graders, regardless of their familiarity with English. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Peer reviewedBittker, Christine M. – Roeper Review, 1991
This study followed 96 gifted students from kindergarten through high school and found that students who qualified for the gifted program on the basis of verbal or quantitative reasoning abilities performed better in academic subjects than did students who qualified only on the basis of nonverbal abilities. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability
Lohman, David F. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2005
In a recent article in this journal, Naglieri and Ford (2003) claimed that Black and Hispanic students are as likely to earn high scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT; Naglieri, 1997a) as White students. However, the sample that Naglieri and Ford used was not representative of the U.S. school population as a whole and was quite…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Nonverbal Tests, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
