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Drevon, Daniel D.; Knight, Rachel M.; Bradley-Johnson, Sharon – Contemporary School Psychology, 2017
With the number of new and revised nonverbal and language-reduced tests of cognitive ability, selection and interpretation of appropriate measures can be complicated. Seven nonverbal or language-reduced tests with normative data collected within the last 15 years were evaluated. Besides evaluating technical adequacy, other variables affecting test…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Nonverbal Tests, Cognitive Ability, Test Validity
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Desmet, Ophélie Allyssa; Ford, Donna Y.; Gentry, Marcia; Grantham, Tarek C.; Karami, Sareh – Roeper Review, 2021
The field of gifted education, historically and contemporarily, is not well-known for being equitable for underrepresented students, specifically, Black, Hispanic, Native American, among others. In this article, we present a short history of gifted education with attention to key historical figures who have significantly shaped the field; their…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Educational History, Influences
Erin M. Anderson; Yin-Juei Chang; Susan Hespos; Dedre Gentner – Grantee Submission, 2018
This research tests whether analogical learning is present before language comprehension. Three-month-old infants were habituated to a series of analogous pairs, instantiating either the "same" relation (e.g., AA, BB, etc.) or the "different" relation (e.g., AB, CD, etc.), and then tested with further exemplars of the…
Descriptors: Infants, Paired Associate Learning, Logical Thinking, Nonverbal Ability
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Babbitt, Edna M.; Worrall, Linda; Cherney, Leora R. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2016
Purpose: This article summarizes current outcomes from intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) and examines data from one ICAP to identify those who respond and do not respond to treatment. Methods: Participants were divided into 2 groups, responders and nonresponders, based on ±5-point change score on the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Outcomes of Treatment, Therapy, Measures (Individuals)
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Serdarevic, Fadila; van Batenburg-Eddes, Tamara; Mous, Sabine E.; White, Tonya; Hofman, Albert; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Tiemeier, Henning – Developmental Science, 2016
Within a population-based study of 3356 children, we investigated whether infant neuromotor development was associated with cognition in early childhood. Neuromotor development was examined with an adapted version of Touwen's Neurodevelopmental Examination between 9 and 20 weeks. Parents rated their children's executive functioning at 4 years. At…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Development, Intelligence Tests, Nonverbal Ability