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How to Get Really Smart: Modeling Retest and Training Effects in Ability Testing using Computer-Generated Figural Matrix Items
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Freund, Philipp Alexander; Holling, Heinz – Intelligence, 2011
The interpretation of retest scores is problematic because they are potentially affected by measurement and predictive bias, which impact construct validity, and because their size differs as a function of various factors. This paper investigates the construct stability of scores on a figural matrices test and models retest effects at the level of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Test Results, Individual Testing, Construct Validity
Mental Verbs and Pragmatic Language Difficulties
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Spanoudis, George; Natsopoulos, Demetrios; Panayiotou, Georgia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Pragmatic language impairment has recently been the subject of a number of studies that attempted to illuminate classification and diagnostic issues, and identify the profile of children with pragmatic language difficulties. Although much progress has been made, the nature of pragmatic difficulties remains unclear. Aims: To contrast…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Verbs, Semantics, Pragmatics
Measurement and Non-Measurement Influences of Test-Session Behavior on Individually Administered Measures of Intelligence.
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Konold, Timothy R.; Maller, Susan J.; Glutting, Joseph J. – Journal of School Psychology, 1998
Two nested structural models are developed to determine whether test-session behaviors affect the manner in which intelligence is measured or influence the constructs being measured. Results indicate that test-session behaviors play a larger role influencing the mechanisms of measurement than on the constructs of intelligence. (Author/EMK)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Testing, Intelligence
Situational Judgment Test Research: Informing the Debate on Practical Intelligence Theory
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McDaniel, Michael A.; Whetzel, Deborah L. – Intelligence, 2005
[Gottfredson, L. S. (2003). Dissecting practical intelligence theory: Its claims and evidence. Intelligence, 31, 343-397.] provided a detailed critique of Sternberg's [Sternberg, R. J., Fotsythe, G. B., Hedlund, J., Horvath, J. A., Wagner, R. K., Williams, W. M., Snook, S. A., Grigorenko, E. L. (2000). Practical intelligence in everyday life. New…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Test Format, Test Items, Personnel Selection
Effects of Questionnaire Administration Condition on Children's Achievement-Related Beliefs.
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Stader, Sandra R.; Licht, Barbara G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The responses of 194 fifth graders to a questionnaire assessing causal attributions, academic expectancies, and self-evaluation of smartness varied as a function of whether the questionnaire was administered individually or in a group. Children expressed lower and less accurate predictions in the individual condition than in the group condition.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Comparative Testing
Brave New World of Intelligence Testing.
Rice, Berkeley – Psychology Today, 1979
New approaches to assessing intelligence are discussed, as well as new intelligence tests. Among the developments are investigating neurometrics, adapting testing to the effects of technology on children, countering cultural bias, assessing social intelligence, focusing on aspects of cognitive styles, measuring learning potential, and using…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes