Compared the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery (W-J) for 142 children with regular and learning-disabled (LD) class placement. The W-J and WISC-R evidenced low to moderate correlations and significant mean differences. W-J/WISC-R correlations for the regular students exceeded…

Normative data for the Advanced Raven's Progressive Matrices are presented based on 300 University of California, Berkeley, students. Correlations with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Terman Concept Mastery Test are explored. The relationship between the Advanced Raven's Progressive Matrices and Spearman's g is explored. (Author)

Administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, and Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence in a counterbalanced design to randomly selected elementary school children (N=72). Results indicated that the verbal Intelligence Quotients (IQs) were comparable, but the performance and…

A study evaluated comparatively the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) Interactive Test and Advantage Learning Systems' STAR Reading Computer-Adaptive Standardized Test. Due to the different methods used for collecting and calculating norm-referenced scores in the two tests, scale score measures of reading performance were used for the comparative…

Article relates research done to discover with which characters adolescents form strong identifications; and to learn which characters these youths most admire. (Author)

The importance of the teacher to the success of any individualized teaching method cannot be overemphasized. (Editor)

Studied the extent to which job evaluation methods, differing in methodology, and presently used in South Africa, would in fact supply similar classifications. Correlation coefficients among the 16 participating organization job evaluation point ratings indicated high agreement among methods, irrespective of job type and level within the…

Examined the relationship between brain-behavior and hypnotic susceptibility in 70 alcoholic patients, using the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale and its Fromm-Weingarten modification. Results showed the two scales were interchangeable insofar as they measured the same ability, and indicated that hypnotic susceptibility is related to…

Compared retention of old and young adults in a Brown-Peterson task. Older adults recalled fewer letters correctly and the magnitude of the difference was related positively to the length of the retention interval. The main effect of age and the age by retention interval interaction was significant. (Author/JAC)