Twenty-nine first grade monolingual English speaking children and 59 English second language children (given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven Matrices in kindergarten) were tested via the Metropolitan Achievement Test to determine achievement levels of Italian children and the predictive relationship between measures of ability…

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALIDITY OF INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER TESTS USED IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF RETARDED CHILDREN WAS PERFORMED. EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES CONSISTED OF 101 CHILDREN SELECTED FROM SPECIAL CLASSES FOR EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) WHOSE AGES RANGED FROM 6.9 TO 10 YEARS AND WHOSE IQ SCORES RANGED FROM 50 TO 80. THE TESTS EVALUATED WERE (1)…

The York Region Board of Education in Ontario, Canada, screens students for giftedness in grade 3. This report analyzes data produced in the 1986-87 screening procedure, involving approximately 3,400 students. The report begins with a review of procedural changes that were designed to make the screening more effective and efficient than earlier…

The relationship of the Progressive Matrices Test (PM) to the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test (LTIQ) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is examined. Predictive power of these measures with respect to a number of achievement measures was also investigated. The initial sample consisted of 242 first graders and 281 second…