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Peeking inside the "Black Box" of the Flynn Effect: Evidence from Three Wechsler Instruments
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Zhou, Xiaobin; Zhu, Jianjun; Weiss, Lawrence G. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
This study investigated the Wechsler Performance IQ (PIQ) or Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)/ Perceptual Organization Index (POI) change over time and its relation to ability levels. PIQ or PRI/ POI was analyzed because of the known sensitivity of nonverbal scales to the Flynn effect. Scores were analyzed using two methods. First, analysis of…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Age Differences, Change
Problems with IQ Gains: The Huge Vocabulary Gap
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Flynn, James R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
Despite Kaufman, Raven's Progressive Matrices and the Wechsler subtest Similarities are tests whose gains call for special explanation. The spread of "scientific spectacles" is the key, but its explanatory potential has been exhausted. Three trends force us to look elsewhere: (a) gains on Wechsler subtests such as Picture Arrangement,…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Change, Test Norms, Measures (Individuals)
Readers' Tellings: Narrators, Settings, Flashbacks and Comprehension
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Kucer, Stephen B. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
This research explores the impact of flashbacks and changes in settings and narrators on reader comprehension. Individually, 34 fourth graders (9 and 10 years of age), mostly with above average reading abilities (5.0), orally read the first chapter of a novel. Both publisher and readability formulae estimated the text to be at a fourth- grade…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Literary Devices, Narration, Geographic Location
The College Choice Process of the Women Who Gender Integrated America's Military Academies
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Jacob, Stacy A. – College and University, 2011
In 1976 and again in 1995, several brave women chose to enroll at--and thereby to "gender integrate"--America's military colleges. In 1976, women were admitted to the Department of Defense (DOD) service academies after an Act of Congress changed a law so as to allow for their matriculation. Beginning in 1995, women were admitted to state-supported…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Military Schools, Military Training, Military Personnel
"Teachers Are Meant to Be Orthodox": Narrative and Counter Narrative in the Discursive Construction of "Identity" in Teaching
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Watson, Cate – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
Narratives are important to us not only or even primarily because they tell about our past lives, but because they enable us to make sense of the present. We attempt to create coherence and give meaning to our lives by learning to read time backwards. This paper examines a counter narrative of entry into the teaching profession showing how the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Personal Narratives, Professional Personnel, Identification
The Face of Society: Gender and Race in Introductory Sociology Books Revisited
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Clark, Roger; Nunes, Alex – Teaching Sociology, 2008
We have updated Ferree and Hall's (1990) study of the way gender and race are constructed through pictures in introductory sociology textbooks. Ferree and Hall looked at 33 textbooks published between 1982 and 1988. We replicated their study by examining 3,085 illustrations in a sample of 27 textbooks, most of which were published between 2002 and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Sociology, Textbook Content, Content Analysis