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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Intelligence testing"”.
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Intelligence Testing For Persons With Visual Impairments: Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment
… completion task as a measure of non-verbal intelligence for persons with low or no vision. Sixty-six UND undergraduates completed the prototype Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment (HMIA) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 4th Edition (WAIS-IV), as well as several other tasks. …
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Conditional error variance in the WISC-IV
… condition. Implications of these findings for intelligence testing are discussed.</p>
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Multiple Intelligence Theory and its Application in Modern Vocal Pedagogy
… 1983, Howard Gardner shook the foundations of intelligence testing and the field of education by suggesting that there are seven distinct intelligences. These intelligences had testable and distinct attributes that were supported by his research at the Boston Veterans Administration. This …
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Real Work Task Performance: The Role of Abilities, Non-Ability Traits, and Proximal Variables
… new, ecologically valid measures of adult intelligence that are representative of tasks that adults might encounter in their everyday lives. In order to accomplish this objective, 59 undergraduate students (35 male, 24 female) completed three hands-on, experimental tasks that were designed …
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The Underrepresentation of Black Students in Advanced Placement Classes: A Local Response to a National Issue
… it briefly describes the historical journey of intelligence, testing, and social theories. The framework used to address the problem is Networked Improvement Communities. Finally, light is shed on a school district currently working on this problem and a strategic plan is suggested in order to …
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Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Brain Function as Measured by Quantitative EEG, Neuropsychological, and Psychological Tests
… versus right hemisphere functioning in CSA using intelligence testing. An examination of QEEG cortical coherence revealed moderate to large effect sizes indicating patterns of decreased connectivity between brain regions on the right frontally in the delta band, and frontally and centro-temporally …
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Existing Practice and Proposed Changes in Cognitive Assessment of Utah Students Identified as Deaf and Hard Hearing
… the past, current, and proposed practice of intelligence testing with a unique population, students identified as deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH). As a basis for describing the cognitive ability of Utah's D/HH students and to improve practice guidelines, 61 D/HH students served by Utah …
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The Cape Town Child Guidance Clinic, 1935-1971 : an historical analysis
… from the school. The importance ascribed to intelligence testing was indicated. The subsequent growth of a base of psychological knowledge and an increased specialist psychological role was then explored in relation to the procedure followed at the Clinic. It was argued that psychologists …
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The strange career of bilingual education: A history of the political and pedagogical debate over language instruction in American public education, 1890-1990
… of English-only pedagogy, and the role of intelligence testing in the education of Mexican Americans. Chapter Six examines the developments in language instruction during World War II and the post-war changes in pedagogy. Chapter Seven analyzes the Mexican American response to the …
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The role of the school psychologist in the state of Washington: current and ideal
… They would decrease the relative importance of: Intelligence testing and report writing; Personality testing and report writing; Consulting on curriculum; Community discussion, lecture, and education. School psychologists with the doctorate spend more time with the in-service training function …
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The relationship between successive, simultaneous, and planning processes and the solution of metaphors, and achievement in sixth-grade students.
This research was an investigation of the relationship between the cognitive processes labeled successive, simultaneous, and planning proposed by Luria and Das (Das, Kirby & Jarman, 1979) and the solution of visual metaphors and the achievement of 6th grade elementary age students from metropolitan …
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The Neuropsychological Application of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III
The current study examined the WAIS-IV and how the changes to the test may impact the measure's usefulness in neuropsychological evaluations. It was hypothesized that the WAIS-IV would be a significantly better predictor of performance on the neuropsychological measures of the Category Test, Finger …
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The relationship between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition in brain-damaged adults.
… the relationship between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SBIV) in a brain-damaged adult sample. The sample in this study was composed of 30 adult patients at two residential treatment programs who completed …
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Does phonological processing, a specific subtype of dyslexia, impact performance on intelligence tests?
… on performance and the results of ability on IQ testing. Twenty-two records from a learning center in southern New Jersey were used for data in this study. The sample consisted of 12 male and 10 female children's charts. These children were tested at the learning center in 2005. The age range of …
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Analysis of the Reliability of the Cognitive Ability Test as a Predictor of Intellectual Giftedness
The problem: This study examined the reliability of the Cognitive Ability Test by Thorndike and Wagen as a tool for identification of gifted students, Procedure. Statistical analysis using a chi-square and a t-test were used to examine the reliability/ repeatability of this test. The first grade …
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The human movement factor of the Rorschach test as a predictor of intelligence
<p>It is possible to determine the degree of intelligence of an individual by use of the M (human movement) response of the Group Rorschach Blank arranged by M. R. Harrower.</p><p> Is there a significant difference between the correlation of summed human movement Rorschach scores and intelligence …
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