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Peer reviewedPletan, Michael D.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1995
Questionnaires were completed by 100 parents of kindergarten-age children whom the parents thought to be mathematically precocious. Five factors were found to characterize responses: (1) general intellectual factor; (2) short- and long-term memory; (3) rote memory; (4) spatial reasoning; and (5) specific relational knowledge. Parents were able to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Concept Formation
deSilva, W. A. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
The way students, aged 12 through 16, ascribed meaning to coded words representing historical terms, based on contextual clues, was studied. Intelligence, grammatical ability, cultural background, and interest in history were also examined. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Context Clues
