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TAYLOR, CALVIN W. – 1958
PAPERS PRESENTED AT A 1957 CONFERENCE ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF CREATIVE SCIENTIFIC TALENT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT. RESEARCH STUDIES AND POSITION PAPERS DEAL WITH THE NATURE, MEASUREMENT, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY. STUDIES THAT EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN (1) UNDERGRADUATE GRADES AND RESEARCH ABILITY, (2) COMMUNICATIONS…
Descriptors: Ability, Conference Reports, Creativity, Cultural Influences
Slaughter, Diana T. – 1979
A study was conducted using a longitudinal, multivariate, multimethod approach to determine the effects of parent education programs on black mothers and children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds. Black infants from lower status communities, ages 22-41 months, were evaluated during the early intervention study. Instruments used included…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged
Cocking, Rodney R.; McHale, Susan – 1977
This study examined the specific effects of picture and object stimuli on two types of language performance: comprehension and performance. Subjects were 48 4- and 5-year-olds who were randomly assigned to one of four groups. Groups were matched for SES, sex, and age and tested individually with one of the four measures: language comprehension…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Tips, Martha; And Others – 1978
A 64-item analogy test was developed and administered to 55 college students enrolled in a noncredit reading improvement course to assess the effects of an instructional unit in taking analogy tests. The instructional unit was a 35-page self-instructional booklet that described the most common formats of analogy testing, defined eight types of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Autoinstructional Aids, Higher Education
Halamandaris, Pandelis G. – 1968
On the basis of the grammatical theory developed by Noam Chomsky, it is reasonable to presume that the different parts of a sentence may not all be understood with equal facility and speed. One purpose of this study was to determine whether some of the grammatical relations within a sentence were understood more readily than others. Sentences of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level
Reeback, Robert T. – 1968
Seven 18- to 32-month-old children received from seven to 26 experimental sessions each between October 1966 and April 1967. A session lasted from 5 to 15 minutes and concerned control over the verbal responses of the children with token-operated reinforcement devices. In order to make the results of the experimental sessions meaningful, an…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition
Whiteman, Martin; And Others – 1965
A cross-sectional study of 292 first and fifth grade Negro and white children examined the relationship between environmental factors and performance test scores of verbal and cognitive ability. The socioeconomic status (SES) of each subject was determined and included in a deprivation index formed by obtaining a composite score for each subject…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability, Correlation, Disadvantaged
Powers, Donald E. – 1977
Factor analyses of two forms of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test were undertaken to better understand the abilities affecting test performance. Results suggest that three global abilities--two verbal and one quantitative--are consistently tapped by the GRE Aptitude Test. Other less prominent dimensions--some of which appear to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Cluster Grouping, College Entrance Examinations
Smith, Aaron – 1976
Neuropsychological research on the effects of hemispherectomy-the excision of one of the cerebral hemispheres-in children and adults adds to knowledge about the division of labor between the left cerebral hemisphere, which specializes in language and verbal cognitive functions, and the right hemisphere, which specializes in nonlanguage functions.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cerebral Dominance, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Waters, Brian K. – 1975
This study empirically investigated the validity and utility of the stratified adaptive computerized testing model (stradaptive]developed by Weiss (1973). The model presents a tailored testing strategy based on Binet IQ measurement theory and Lord's (1972) modern test theory. Nationally normed School and College Ability Test Verbal analogy items…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Branching, Comparative Analysis
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational and Career Curriculum Development. – 1975
The curriculum was designed to provide a systematic way of instructing apprentices preparing for various trades in the area of communications skills needed on and off the job. The core curriculum is developed in eight learning modules which are self-contained instructional packages: (1) effective verbal communications--understanding and being…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Qafisheh, Hamdi A. – 1972
The linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world is briefly described, and variation and the factors that cause it are discussed. By reviewing the history of the literary language, it is shown that there exist no native speakers of the literary language, Modern Standard Arabic. The relaity is, rather, a classic case of diglossia. This reality…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Language Programs, Diglossia, Language Instruction
Klein, Pnina S.; And Others – 1974
This study investigated the specific learning abilities and general adjustment of 50 children, 5-14 years of age, who had pyloric stenosis (PS) in infancy, compared to 44 siblings and 50 matched control children. PS involves a period of brief starvation in early infancy, unrelated to socioeconomic conditions and is surgically correctable. The…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Children
Fredrick, Wayne C.; And Others – 1970
The conceptualization of the term "psycholinguistic ability" led to the definition of an area of language behavior that is not well represented in achievement tests in English nor in existing tests of verbal intelligence. Thus, the Linguistic Ability Test (LAT) was designed, pilot-tested, revised, and field-tested in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Language Ability
Davidson, Robert E.; And Others – 1970
Eighty sixth-grade subjects, split into five independent groups, learned two PA lists of 12 noun pairs each. Two groups performed under traditional transfer conditions with lists conforming to a negative transfer paradigm, A-B, A-C, or to a reference paradigm A-B, C-D. Two other groups learned the same lists under a syntactic PA method where the…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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