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Multigenerational Giftedness: Perceptions of Giftedness across Three Generations
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Perrone, Kristin M.; Ksiazak, Tracy M.; Wright, Stephen L.; Vannatter, Aarika; Crane, Amy L.; Tanney, Angela – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2010
The focus of this study was on gifted adults' perceptions of multigenerational giftedness in their families. Participants have been surveyed annually since their high school graduation in 1988. The purpose of the longitudinal study is to gain insight into the career and life development of gifted individuals post-high school. For the present…
Descriptors: Gifted, Age Differences, Longitudinal Studies, Mail Surveys
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
The Study of Life Review. An Approach to the Investigation of Intellectual Development across the Life Span. Studien und Berichte 47.
Staudinger, Ursula M. – 1989
A study looked for age differences in the quality of responses to the Life Review Task (LRT), studied the LRT itself as a tool for exploring wisdom and intellectual functioning in adulthood, and considered personality characteristics and life experience as alternative predictors of response quality. Sixty-three West German women of different ages…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
Reanalysis of Student Responses to Creativity Checklists: Evidence of Content Generality.
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Plucker, Jonathan A. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1999
A reanalysis of data from three previously published studies on whether creativity is content general or content specific suggest that, contrary to the results of recent research, a content-general factor may explain 40-50% of the variance in creativity checklist scores. Results are analyzed in light of other studies. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Check Lists, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
The Two- and Three-Dimensional Models of the HK-WISC: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
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Chan, David W.; Lin, Wen-Ying – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1996
Confirmatory analyses on the Hong Kong Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (HK-WISC) provided support for composite score interpretation based on the two- and three-dimensional models across age levels. Test sample was comprised of 1,100 children, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years at all 11 age levels specified by the HK-WISC. (KW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Children
Internal Structure of DISCOVER: A Performance-based Assessment.
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Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2000
A study involving 257 Navajo and Mexican-American elementary students investigated the internal structure of the DISCOVER assessment, a performance-based assessment grounded in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence. Results showed low interrating correlations among the five assessment activities, indicating students gifted in one intelligence…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, American Indians, Elementary Education, Gifted