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Gilchrist, William P.; Burry, Judith A. – 1988
To study the applicability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for assessing hearing-impaired children, nine hearing-impaired children (ranging in age from 6 years 4 months to 11 years 10 months) were administered the battery. Hearing losses for the nine children ranged from moderate to profound. During the evaluation of seven…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Hearing Impairments
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Porter, Larry James; Kirby, Edward Aaron – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Investigated the use of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC)-Nonverbal Scale with severely hearing impaired children (N=49), using two instructional sets (American sign language (ASL) plus pantomime and gestures, or pantomime and gesture (PG) instructions only). Support is provided for the appropriateness of the K-ABC, for use with…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Deafness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Valencia, Richard R. – Psychology in the Schools, 1984
Investigated the internal consistency reliability estimates of the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) for 96 Anglo and Mexican American third-grade boys from low socioeconomic status background. The results showed that the reliability estimates of the CPM for the two ethnic groups were acceptably high and extremely similar in magnitude.…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Lower Class Students
Silver, Rawley A. – 1981
The recognition that children's cognitive skills are evident in visual as well as verbal conventions has led to the construction of the Silver Test of Cognitive and Creative Skills (STCCS) for the assessment and development of children's cognitive abilities. Research on cognition, the role of language in cognition, and left and right brain…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Smith, Douglas K. – 1988
The Matrix Analogies Test-Expanded Form (MAT-EF) and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) were administered in counterbalanced order to two randomly selected samples of students in grades 2 through 5. The MAT-EF was recently developed to measure non-verbal reasoning. The samples included 26 non-handicapped second graders in a rural…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
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Jensen, Arthur R.; Whang, Patricia A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
Results of a comparison of 73 Anglo American and 155 Chinese American (CA) fourth through sixth graders on an intelligence test and measures of the speed and consistency of retrieval of arithmetic facts from long-term memory are consistent with the hypothesis that accessing elementary arithmetic knowledge is more completely automatized in CA…
Descriptors: Addition, Anglo Americans, Arithmetic, Chinese Americans