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Peer reviewedFeingold, Arnold – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993
Reviews developmental literature on cognitive gender differences; and compares past and present trends in gender differences, by age, from standardizations of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales and the California Achievement Tests. Decreases are found in gender differences for adolescents but not for adults. Implications are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences
Peer reviewedFeingold, Alan – Review of Educational Research, 1992
Sex differences in variability in the national norms of the Differential Aptitude Tests, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/Scholastic Aptitude Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, and California Achievement Tests were examined. Compared to females, males were consistently more variable in quantitative reasoning, spatial visualization,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, College Entrance Examinations
Download full textGRIFFING, BARRY L.; HAYES, GORDON M. – 1965
THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS OF 262 DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS (GRADES 7 TO 9) IN THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE FORM--(1) THE TEST USED TO SECURE AN INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (2) THE YEAR THE IQ TEST WAS GIVEN AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (3) ACHIEVEMENT TESTS USED AND THE NUMBER OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Deafness, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
Oakland, Thomas – 1980
Empirical evidence is presented regarding the use of the estimated learning potential (ELP). The data reported come from three instruments: the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), the reading and math components of the California Achievement Tests, and the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA) Sociocultural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary Education, Intelligence Quotient
SAFFORD, PHILIP L. – 1967
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TASK SCORES VERSUS IQ AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT WAS INVESTIGATED, AND THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN TASK SCORES AND IQ RE-EXAMINED. SUBJECTS WERE 99 UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH A MEAN STANFORD-BINET IQ OF 126 (SD EQUALS 19). THE INSTRUMENTS USED WERE DUNN'S OBJECT SORTING TASK (OST),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Tests, Creativity, Elementary Education
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
Two studies are briefly reported here, one concerned with a method for locating high ability inner-city students, and the other dealing with a method of motivating low achieving inner-city students. Both studies drew on a population of black junior high school students, eighth and ninth graders, 14, 15, and 16 years of age. In the first study,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Black Students
Peer reviewedStewart, David W.; Morris, Linda – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The present study was undertaken with two related goals: (a) to examine the relationships between the WRAT and CAT, and (b) to examine the relationships which may exist between these academic achievement tests -nd a standard intelligence battery such as the Wechsler Scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
