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Hunt, Earl – Science, 1983
Discusses an alternative approach to intelligence tests as a measure of intelligence. The approach is based on three classes of performance dealing with a person's choice of an internal representation for a problem, strategies for manipulating the representation, and abilities to execute elementary information processing steps required by the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
Stemler, Steven E.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Jarvin, Linda; Sternberg, Robert J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Sternberg's theory of successful intelligence was used to create augmented exams in Advanced Placement Psychology and Statistics. Participants included 1895 high school students from 19 states and 56 schools throughout the U.S. The psychometric results support the validity of creating examinations that assess memory, analytical, creative, and…
Descriptors: Psychology, Statistics, Theories, Cognitive Processes
Vernon, Philip E. – 1982
Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the United States and Canada have survived years of discrimination and oppression and today demonstrate academic and professional achievements that are often better than those of whites. However, the Asians continue to obtain higher scores on nonverbal/spatial tests than on verbal tests and tend to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Meeker, Mary – 1985
Educators, as applied scientists, must work in partnership with investigative scientists who are researching brain functions in order to reach a better understanding of gifted students and students who are intelligent but do not learn. Improper understanding of brain functions can cause gross errors in educational placement. Until recently, the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Brain, Cognitive Tests, Educational Research

Thomas, William B. – American Journal of Education, 1982
Examines Black social scientists' intellectual efforts, starting in the 1920s, to challenge research conclusions about the innate mental inferiority of Blacks, disclaim the validity of intelligence tests used, and demonstrate the influence of environment on test performance. Finds irony in Black intellectuals' use of the mental tests they…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Black Attitudes, Black Colleges, Blacks

Madden, Palmer Brown – School Psychology Review, 1980
This article addresses the question of why intelligence tests were put on trial. The courts had to weigh the validity of intelligence tests once California chose to rely upon intelligence tests to justify the large numbers of Black children in classes for the educable mentally retarded. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Students, Court Litigation, Cultural Influences