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Guilford, Joan S.; And Others – 1971
The inventory is designed to measure seven dimensions of value based on seven categories of needs: physiological; safety; love; esteem; aesthetic; self-actualization; and aggression. Each item was pretested and checked for validity and reliability. Two test formats, each containing 30 items, were prepared: a single picture format in which the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Ethnic Groups, Grade 1, Grade 2
1971
The Vernon Non Verbal Personality Test has been developed in pilot form and standardization is now being planned. It involves the use of reproductions, famous works of art, incomplete pictures, the drawings of mental patients of known diagnosis, and picture dramas. The subject completes the test by himself in about 45 minutes after being helped…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Art, Diagnostic Tests, Language Handicaps
Kyostio, O. K. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a study of the prognostic value of handicraft training in Finnish school for subsequent success in school and on the job. The study raised several related questions--techniques of work appraisal, citizenship, school streaming, and trial periods at vocational schools. The…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Abstracts, Career Guidance, Educational Testing
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Bond, Gayle Goldstein – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987
The performance of 40 hearing and 40 hearing-impaired children, aged two-five years, was compared on a battery of nonverbal tasks and a nonverbal intelligence test. Age significantly affected the results, consistent with a developmental change. In cognitive development, the hearing-impaired children were comparable to same-age hearing children.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Mills, Carol J.; Tissot, Sherri L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1995
The Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) and the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) were evaluated as possible instruments for identifying academically talented students in minority populations. A significantly higher proportion of minority children scored well on the RPM than on a traditional measure. Issues and concerns about using the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Nicholson, Charles L. – Diagnostique, 1990
The Matrix Analogies Test measures nonverbal ability of handicapped and nonhandicapped children, ages 5-17, in a culture-fair fashion. It assesses pattern completion, reasoning by analogy, serial reasoning, and spatial visualization, with a short form available as a screening instrument. This paper describes the test's administration, format,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Culture Fair Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Haldimann, 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
Kluever, Raymond C.; And Others – 1995
The relationship between scores on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) scores and subtest scores and IQs from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III) was studied for 28 children aged 6 to 11 years. Subjects had been referred to a university assessment center because they were believed to have exceptional learning…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavior Problems, Children, Correlation
Phillips, Gary W.; Grodsky, Milton – 1985
The decision making processes of children in a probabilistic environment were studied within the context of the theory of signal detection (TSD). The relationship between the age of the child and his ability to revise decision criteria was examined, as well as the appropriateness of TSD measures and methodology with children. It was hypothesized…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Donlon, Thomas F.; Widiger, Thomas A. – 1978
The historical development and recent applications are described of the picture sequencing format (PSF), a testing device which requires the subject to designate a complete and correct order for a set of related pictures. The earliest use was by Decroly in 1914 and perhaps the best known use is in the Wechsler intelligence tests. Special…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Culture Fair Tests
Ginorio, Angela B.; Berry, Paul C. – 1966
To measure how Puerto Ricans classify each other into racial groups by physical appearance, a stimulus set of 60 color slides was prepared. Two hundred and fifty secondary students sorted these portraits into four, three, and finally two groups. Although subjects placed both the pictures and themselves in a color continuum of racial types with…
Descriptors: Classification, Ethnic Grouping, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Status
Bowd, Alan D. – 1975
This paper presents a study which investigated the relationship between field-dependence, perceptual egocentrism, and inductive reasoning in 53 kindergarten children. The general objective of the study was to assess the validity of the field-dependence measures in early childhood. Field-dependence was found to relate positively with perceptual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Egocentrism, Elementary Education
Cox, William F., Jr.; Fletcher, Harold J. – 1972
Eighty subjects 4, 6, 8, and 10 years of age inductively identified partially uncovered silhouettes of three simple pictures. Subjects removed as few as possible covering pieces, according to their own strategies, to correctly name the pictures. Performance generally improved with increased age on the two dependent measures, inductively inferring…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Powers, Stephen; Barkan, Jerry H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Correlations between the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) and the California Achievement Test, Reading, Language, and Mathematics Tests were examined for 99 Hispanic and 93 non-Hispanic Caucasian seventh-grade students. All correlations were highly significant. Supports continued use of the SPM as a measure of nonverbal intellectual…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Concurrent Validity, Culture Fair Tests
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Bittker, 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
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