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No "g" in Education?
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Brunner, Martin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
This study investigates the relationships of domain-general cognitive abilities and domain-specific verbal and mathematical abilities to students' educational characteristics when two theoretically grounded, but competing structural models are applied. In the standard model, a single latent ability causes interindividual differences in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability
The Effect of Intellectual Disability on the Adherence of Child Witnesses to a "Story Grammar" Framework
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Murfett, Romana; Powell, Martine B.; Snow, Pamela C. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Background: This study examined the ability of 78 children (aged 9-12 years) with an intellectual disability (ID) to provide a narrative account of a staged event they had participated in four days earlier. Method: The children were interviewed using open-ended questions. The quality of their responses (using a story grammar framework) was…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Story Grammar, Mental Age, Mental Retardation
Intellectual Competence and Academic Performance: Preliminary Validation of a Model
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane – Intelligence, 2008
The present study provides a preliminary empirical test of [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2004). A possible model to understand the personality-intelligence interface. "British Journal of Psychology," 95, 249-264], [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2006a). Intellectual competence and the intelligent personality: A…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Models, Validity