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A Meta-Analysis on Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Ability Measured by the Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R)
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Maeda, Yukiko; Yoon, So Yoon – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the magnitude of gender difference in three-dimensional (3-D) mental rotation ability and to investigate how factors related to test administration conditions play a role in varying gender difference effect sizes and threatening validity. Individuals' 3-D mental rotation ability was measured by the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Effect Size, Visualization, Gender Differences
Assessment of Working Memory in Six- and Seven-Year-Old Children.
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Gathercole, Susan E.; Pickering, Susan J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
A test battery was designed to test the Baddeley and Hitch model of working memory. The battery was administered to 87 children aged 6 and 7 years. Correlations between subtest scores indicated high construct validity for the central executive and phonological loop measures, although not for the visuospatial measures. (Contains 100 references and…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
Highlights in Pioneering the Understanding of Language Disabilities.
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Bender, Lauretta – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Described are the history of the study of language disabilities, briefly outlining the work of Samuel Orton, Judson Herrick, Adolph Meyer, and Paul Schilder; Lauretta Bender's development of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test; and the basic principles of language disorders, including familial patterns, maturation lag, plasticity, and nonfixated…
Descriptors: Child Development, Heredity, History, Individual Development
A Structural Theory of Spatial Abilities.
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Guttman, Ruth; And Others – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1990
After a brief review of the contributions of factor analysis and regional analysis to the elaboration of the structures of spatial abilities, a facet design and regional model for spatial abilities are presented. A cylindrical-wedge model is proposed to represent the correlational structure of spatial ability tests. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Factor Analysis, Intelligence
Orientation and Mobility Research: What Is Known and What Needs to Be Known.
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Long, Richard G. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
This article reviews the development of measures that assess mobility and discusses the use of such measures in the study of factors influencing travel in natural travel environments. It traces the development of measures related to spatial orientation, provides a review of orientation research, and suggests areas for future research. (SM)
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Cognitive Factors: Their Identification and Replication.
Ekstrom, Ruth B.; And Others – Multivariate Behavioral Research Monographs, 1979
This summarizes a study designed to provide a basis for researchers who study measurable areas of human performance or attempt to conceptualize and develop a theory and structure of abilities. Specifically, this study was directed toward the identification of tests that can serve as markers for well established cognitive factors. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests