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Multidimensional Ability Tests and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Evidence of Measurement Invariance
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Lakin, Joni M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Ability tests are used by teachers to provide additional context for interpreting student achievement and as a tool for differentiating instruction to the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of students. Tests that provide the most useful information for these purposes measure school-related content domains including verbal and quantitative…
Descriptors: Evidence, Second Language Learning, Educational Opportunities, Cultural Background
Another Failure to Replicate Lynn's Estimate of the Average IQ of Sub-Saharan Africans
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Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; Carlson, Jerry S.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
In his comment on our literature review of data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven's Progressive Matrices, Lynn (this issue) criticized our selection of samples of primary and secondary school students. On the basis of the samples he deemed representative, Lynn concluded that the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans stands at 67…
Descriptors: Legislators, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries
Raven's Test Performance of Sub-Saharan Africans: Average Performance, Psychometric Properties, and the Flynn Effect
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Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; Carlson, Jerry S.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This paper presents a systematic review of published data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven's Progressive Matrices. The specific goals were to estimate the average level of performance, to study the Flynn Effect in African samples, and to examine the psychometric meaning of Raven's test scores as measures of general intelligence.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity, Foreign Countries
Identifying Young Gifted Children and Cultivating Problem Solving Abilities and Multiple Intelligences
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Kuo, Ching-Chih; Maker, June; Su, Fang-Liu; Hu, Chun – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The "Enrichment Program for Cultivating Problem Solving Abilities and Multiple Intelligences for Gifted Preschoolers" (PSMIGP program) was the first enrichment program for young gifted children in Taiwan. It was an extra-curricular program that was implemented over a 3-year period. The assessment and curriculum were designed by adapting…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Gifted, Portfolio Assessment, Enrichment Activities
Olympics of the Mind as a Method to Identify Giftedness: Soviet and Russian Experience
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Ushakov, Dmitry V. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The history of Olympics of the mind in the former USSR, now Russia, can be connected to the entire system of identifying and fostering giftedness within the country. The development of educational opportunities for the gifted has reflected the country's practical needs in stimulating research and advancing technologically, as well as for major…
Descriptors: Gifted, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Technological Advancement
Variation in Raven's Progressive Matrices Scores across Time and Place
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Brouwers, Symen A.; Van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Van Hemert, Dianne A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The paper describes a cross-cultural and historical meta-analysis of Raven's Progressive Matrices. Data were analyzed of 798 samples from 45 countries (N = 244,316), which were published between 1944 and 2003. Country-level indicators of educational permeation (which involves a broad set of interrelated educational input and output factors that…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Nonverbal Tests, Scores, Regional Characteristics