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Braverman, Marc – 1982
In order to investigate the factors that affect the ability of children to decode and elaborate television information, a study was conducted in which verbal ability, spatial ability, and amount of home television viewing were examined, along with viewer attention and three levels of instruction, for their direct and interactive effects on…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Attention, Characterization, Cognitive Ability
Hsia, Jayjia – 1981
There are discrepancies between the aptitude test scores of Asian and Pacific Americans and their academic and employment achievement. Asian Pacific Americans do better in school than their test scores predict, but have lower level jobs and income than predicted. These students perform above average in mathematics and science and below average in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Career Choice, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Marshalek, Brachia – 1981
Seventy-four high school seniors participated in a study that examined the construct validity of vocabulary tests and the nature of verbal ability by integrating findings and theories of cognitive psychology with those of differential psychology. The subjects completed three kinds of measurement instruments: (1) an experimental faceted vocabulary…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, High School Seniors, High Schools, Language Acquisition
Esau, Helmut; Yost, Carlson – 1978
This paper describes an experiment that was undertaken to examine the usefulness of the cloze test as an objective measure of a native speaker's writing ability. A modified version of the cloze test used by Oller and others to measure integrative language skills in non-native speakers was given to 100 freshman English students. The test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, College Freshmen, English
Brownlee, Don; Brownlee, Susan – 1980
Although the study of communication has been consistently recognized as a vital segment of legal training, it has not been universally adopted as part of the law school curriculum. A survey of 150 law schools was designed to determine the communication skills and training necessary for competent performance in both law school and professional…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Research
DAVIS, FREDERICK B.; LESSER, GERALD S. – 1959
METHODS OF MEASUREMENT AND A SUITABLE CURRICULUM WERE DEVELOPED AND ASSESSED FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN GIFTED IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING RESPECTS--SPACE CONCEPTUALIZATION, VOCABULARY, NUMBER ABILITY, LOGICAL REASONING, AND SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION. EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS WERE ESTABLISHED OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD. EVALUATION OF SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Ability, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development
BERNHEIM, GLORIA D. – 1967
THREE- AND 4-YEAR-OLDS WERE GIVEN VERBAL LEARNING PRETRAINING TO DETERMINE ITS EFFECT UPON THE PERFORMANCE OF REVERSAL AND NONREVERSAL SHIFT DISCRIMINATION TASKS. THE EXPERIMENTAL TASK WAS THE CLASSICAL REVERSAL-NONREVERSAL SHIFT PARADIGM. THE 96 PRE-SCHOOLERS, PRIMARILY FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY NURSERY SCHOOL, WERE DIVIDED INTO 4…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
GALLAGHER, JAMES J. – 1965
IDENTIFICATION OF PRODUCTIVE THOUGHT PROCESSES IN INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED CHILDREN WAS BROUGHT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CLASSROOM VERBAL ACTIVITY AT THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THESE THOUGHT PROCESSES AND CERTAIN VARIABLES THAT MAY AFFECT THEIR OPERATION IN THE CLASSROOM WERE ASSESSED. AREAS EXPLORED WERE COGNITIVE STRUCTURE AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Steffensen, Margaret S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1980
A study varied a formal testing situation to encourage verbalization in black, inner-city nursery school children. The children were asked to identify items from the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test in either a test situation (looking at the stimulus jointly with an adult) or a "need to know" situation (looking at the stimulus alone). It…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Methods, Inner City
Kroll, Arthur M.; Pfister, Linda A. – 1979
The increased attention to measuring career skills has resulted in more instrument development, more testing of students, and more test administrators. There are three key areas of concern. The first area is that of identifying purposes to be served by assessing career skills. Purposes include permitting descriptions of the current status of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills
Dickinson, David K.; Weaver, Phyllis A. – 1979
The story recall abilities of 26 dyslexic children were tested, using a story schema representation previously used in research with normal children. Comparisons within the disabled reader group found significant differences in story schema knowledge, but comparisons between normal and disabled readers revealed no significant differences. However,…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia
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SLOBODZIAN, EVELYN B. – 1968
THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, A TEST DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN AGED 3-9, IS OF VALUE TO THE KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST-GRADE TEACHER IN DIAGNOSING FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMEDIATION, ESPECIALLY IN COMMUNITIES WHERE DISADVANTAGED AREAS EXIST. FROM ITS USE, THE TEACHER CAN DETERMINE BACKGROUND INADEQUACIES, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF A…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary School Students, Individual Development
Cowling, Dorothy N. C. – 1967
In order to test language ability and school readiness in children with Head Start experience, 168 disadvantaged children were randomly selected. Only half of the children had previous Head Start experience. All children received the Metropolitan Readiness Test and were observed by their teacher and examiner. The results showed that in language…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Ability, Observation
Madden, Howard L.; Valentine, Lonnie D., Jr. – 1967
In the high school testing program conducted by the USAF Recruiting Service there is occasional reference to relationships between the Airman Qualifying Examination and certain civilian tests. Information concerning these relationships can be useful to guidance counselors. This report contains data on the relationships between the Employee…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aptitude, Correlation, Enlisted Personnel
Simonds, Lynn – 1975
The program outlined in this document has been based on the premises that the communication skills form the basis for achievement in other areas and are interwoven with personal development and self-concept, and that working on language development involves increasing children's abilities to use sounds, the structure of the language, grammatical…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Drama, Early Childhood Education
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