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Direct and Indirect Effects of Mother's Spatial Ability on Child's Spatial Ability: What Role Does the Home Environment Play?
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Nelcida L. Garcia-Sanchez; Anthony Steven Dick; Timothy Hayes; Shannon M. Pruden – Developmental Science, 2024
Individual differences in spatial thinking are predictive of children's math and science achievement and later entry into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Little is known about whether parent characteristics predict individual differences in children's spatial thinking. This study aims to understand whether,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mothers, Ability, Parent Influence
Development of the Neuron Assessment for Measuring Biology Students' Use of Experimental Design Concepts and Representations
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Dasgupta, Annwesa P.; Anderson, Trevor R.; Pelaez, Nancy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Researchers, instructors, and funding bodies in biology education are unanimous about the importance of developing students' competence in experimental design. Despite this, only limited measures are available for assessing such competence development, especially in the areas of molecular and cellular biology. Also, existing assessments do not…
Descriptors: Biology, Research Design, Science Tests, Student Evaluation
Imagining the Music: Methods for Assessing Musical Imagery Ability
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Clark, Terry; Williamon, Aaron – Psychology of Music, 2012
Timing profiles of live and imagined performances were compared with the aim of creating a context-specific measure of musicians' imagery ability. Thirty-two advanced musicians completed imagery use and vividness surveys, and then gave two live and two mental performances of a two-minute musical excerpt, tapping along with the beat of the mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Musicians, Imagery
Differences on Six Horn Abilities for 14 Age Groups between 15-16 and 75-94 Years.
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Kaufman, Alan S.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1996
Six abilities derived from the fluid and crystallized intelligence theory of J. L. Horn were studied with 1,193 individuals in age groups between 15 and 94 years. Results supported Horn's classification of crystallized and quantitative as maintained abilities and of fluid and broad visualization as vulnerable abilities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences
Influence of Abilities on Performance during Practice: Effects of Massed and Distributed Practice.
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Mumford, Michael D.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
How learning styles (massed versus distributed practice) influence the relationship between abilities and task performance was studied with 209 undergraduates. Analysis reveals that perceptual speed contributes to performance for subjects who massed practice, whereas spatial visualization contributed for those who distributed practice.…
Descriptors: Ability, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Performance
Higher-Stratum Ability Structures on a Basis of Twenty Primary Abilities.
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Hakstian, A. Ralph; Cattell, Raymond B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Twenty primary abilities were measured using the Comprehensive Ability Battery. Factor analysis produced six oblique second-stratum factors. Four were identified as capacities in Cattell's triadic theory of ability structure. Correlations among factors yielded three oblique third-stratum factors. Implications for a hierarchical conceptualization…
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Identification, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries