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Lysaught, Jerome P.; Pierleoni, Robert G. – AV Commun Rev, 1970
"The research reported herein was supported by the Cooperative Research Program of the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Cooperative Research Project No. OEC-1-7-068407-0286." (Authors)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Intelligence Tests, Performance Factors, Predictive Measurement
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Hilliard, Asa G., III – Negro Educational Review, 1987
The Learning Potential Assessment Device and Instrumental Enrichment are two much needed improvements in education. Used in tandem, they rectify previous problems of testing and teaching by providing an unbiased assessment device which does not rely on labels for categories of learners. (VM)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Vernon, Philip E. – School Guidance Worker, 1977
Counselors must recognize that most intelligence tests measure a sample of the childs' intellectual functioning on a variety of tasks rather than innate potential. Intelligence varies depending on personality, development, and environmental influences. (Author/HLM)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Futures (of Society), Individual Differences, Intelligence Quotient
Nighswander, James K.; Beggs, Donald L. – 1971
The relative predictive abilities of two indices of test anxiety were investigated. The galvanic skin response (GSR) and the Test Anxiety Scale for Children (TASC) were used as predictor variables for IQ and achievement test performance. The results of multiple linear regression analysis indicated that neither the TASC nor the GSR, combined over…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Elementary School Students
Legg, Sue M.; Ware, William B. – 1979
Student and test characteristics were examined by multiple regression analysis and discriminant function analysis to explain why 171 political science undergraduates scored differently on essay versus objective final examinations. Student characteristics included: (1) patterns of creative, crystallized, and fluid abilities as measured by the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Cognitive Ability, Creativity