TYPES OF HIGH ABILITY: HIGHLY ABLE CHILDREN WITH AN UNBALANCED INTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE     

Mária Herskovits  Eva Gyarmathy 《High Ability Studies》1995,6(1):38-48

The present study focused on children (N=55) with a 12 point or greater difference between verbal IQ (VIQ) and performance IQ (PIQ) on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), with either value being higher than 120. There was a particular focus on those with 24 points or more difference. The control group included children with IQ over 110, but with less than 9 points difference between VIQ and PIQ (N=33). Relatively low VIQs were found in the group with very large discrepancies, and their school performance was in accordance with this result. The problem with the VIQ of this group seemed to be one of maturity. The findings also showed that the subscales are important in diagnosis; the Object Assembly subscale of the WAIS, for instance, has a particular function in the characterisation of hemispheric connections. It was concluded that the group of gifted children displayed right hemispheric dominance, and that differences in the direction of intelligence might influence cognitive style, field of interest and choice of profession. Caution is needed when using VIQ‐PIQ differences for diagnostic purposes, particularly in the case of children with high intelligence.

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Developmental antecedents of young adults’ solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of sympathy,social trust,and peer exclusion from early to late adolescence     

Jeanine Grütter  Marlis Buchmann 《Child development》2021,92(5):e832-e850

This study explored characteristics of young adults’ solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic by identifying three different profiles, characterized by low (23%), average (54%), and high solidarity (23%). Based on longitudinal Swiss panel data (N_T1 = 797, M_{age T1} = 12.15 years, 51% female; 28% migration background representing diverse ethnicities; N_T2 = 707, M_{age T2} = 15.33 years; N_T3 = 596, M_{age T3} = 18.31 years), the study combined person- and variable-centered approaches to examine whether sympathy, social trust, and peer exclusion at earlier phases in development predicted membership in pandemic-related solidarity profiles (N_T4 = 300, M_{age T4} = 20.33 years). All developmental predictors were significantly associated with the likelihood of expressing solidarity during the pandemic as young adults.  相似文献   

Logfile analyses of successful and unsuccessful strategy use in complex problem-solving: a cross-national comparison study     

Wu  Hao  Molnár  Gyöngyvér 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2021,36(4):1009-1032

European Journal of Psychology of Education - The purpose of this study is to examine cross-national differences in students’ exploration strategies in a computer-simulated CPS (complex...  相似文献   

The Nature of Science and Citizenship: a Delphi Analysis     

González-García  Francisco José  Blanco-López  Ángel  España-Ramos  Enrique  Franco-Mariscal  Antonio-Joaquín 《Research in Science Education》2021,51(3):791-818

Research in Science Education - The relationship between science and society has, for many years, been the subject of debate in different fields, and various proposals have been made regarding the...  相似文献   

Does Concrete Content Help People to Reason Scientifically?     

Bašnáková  Jana  Čavojová  Vladimíra  Šrol  Jakub 《Science & Education》2021,30(4):809-826

Science & Education - In this paper, we explored the scientific literacy of a general sample of the Slovak adult population and examined factors that might help or inhibit scientific reasoning,...  相似文献   

On the use of lexical stress in reading Spanish     

Nicolás Gutiérrez-Palma  Alfonso Palma-Reyes 《Reading and writing》2008,21(6):645-660

This paper investigates whether or not lexical stress is used for lexical access in Spanish. A lexical decision task and a masking priming procedure were used to compare correctly-versus-incorrectly stressed words (e.g., técla-TECLA vs. teclá-TECLA). SOA (Stimulus Onset Asynchrony) was manipulated at 33, 66, 100, and 143 ms. The results showed that congruent condition was easier, but in 143 ms SOA only. Furthermore, while congruent condition did not differ from a control identity condition (e.g., tecla-TECLA) incongruent condition was slower, but in 100 and 143 ms SOA only. All these results suggest that stress affects lexical access at a late stage of lexical access processing. Reading models should be re-designed in order to include lexical stress as another phonological code which is used for reading.  相似文献   

Teachers,social class and underachievement     

Máiréad Dunne  Louise Gazeley 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2008,29(5):451-463

Addressing the ‘the social class attainment gap’ in education has become a government priority in England. Despite multiple initiatives, however, little has effectively addressed the underachievement of working‐class pupils within the classroom. In order to develop clearer understandings of working‐class underachievement at this level, this small research study focused on local social processes by exploring how secondary school teachers identified and addressed underachievement in their classrooms. Our analysis shows how teachers’ identifications of underachieving pupils overlapped with, and were informed by, their tacit understanding of pupils’ social class position. While many teachers resisted the influence of social class, they used stereotypes to justify their practice and expectations, positioning pupils within educational and occupational hierarchies. This, we conclude, suggests the need for more systematic attention to the micro‐social processes that provide the conditions through which working‐class underachievement is produced.  相似文献   

Design and application of learning environments based on integrative problems     

Iván Sanchez  Liliana Neriz 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2008,33(4):445-452

This work reports on the results obtained from the application of learning environments on the basis of one integrative problem and a series of other smaller problems that limit the contents to be investigated and learned by the students. This methodology, which is a variation to traditional problem-based learning approaches, is here illustrated in terms of its application in an engineering economics course, a subject that is taught in most engineering programs. The purpose of this methodology is to improve students’ learning, which is measured through the students’ academic performance and their learning strategies, and to characterise them as a function of these variables. The results obtained after the systematic application of this methodology are positive. The surveyed students showed significant changes in the examined variables as well as in their satisfaction and motivation level, and in their commitment to learning.  相似文献   

Re-engagement with education over the life course: motivations and barriers     

Jenny Chesters  Hernán Cuervo  Jun Fu 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2020,39(2):154-167

ABSTRACT

As the Australian labour market restructures and the pace of technological advances quickens, reskilling and up-skilling are now required for sustained employability. Thus, many adults embark on further study after spending a period of time in the workforce. To examine the reasons for re-engaging, and for not re-engaging with education during adulthood, we conduct analysis of longitudinal data collected from a cohort of people who completed school in 1991. The majority of the participants completed an educational qualification between 25 and 44 years and were thus, lifelong learners. Understanding the patterns of re-engagement with education and the reasons why some people choose to re-engage whereas others do not contributes to current policy debates about how education prepares Australians for life.  相似文献   

“Mathematical knowledge for teaching”: adapting U.S. measures for use in Ireland   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Seán Delaney  Deborah Loewenberg Ball  Heather C. Hill  Stephen G. Schilling  Deborah Zopf 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(3):171-197

This article describes a study in which measures of mathematical knowledge for teaching developed in the United States were adapted to measure mathematical knowledge for teaching in Ireland. When adapting the measures it was not assumed that the mathematical knowledge used by Irish and U.S. teachers is the same. Instead psychometric and interview-based methods were used to determine a correspondence between the constructs being measured, and ensure the integrity of item performance in the Irish context. The study found overlap between the knowledge that is used to teach in both Ireland and the United States, and that the items tapped into this knowledge. However, specific findings confirm the usefulness of conducting extensive checks on the validity of items used in cross-national contexts. The process of adaptation is described to provide guidance for others interested in using the items to measure mathematical knowledge for teaching outside the United States. The process also enabled the authors to raise questions about the assumptions that lie behind the practice-based construct of mathematical knowledge for teaching.

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