Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests (BVAT)

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Author(s):  
Ron Dumont ◽  
John O. Willis
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Author(s):  
Justin M Walker ◽  
Robyn Hess
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1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Helga A. H. Rowe

To provide a framework for our discussion of the use of non-verbal ability tests, I would like to precede my paper by a few general remarks concerning ability testing in the 1980s. Everything I am going to say does, in fact, apply to non-verbal tests, the same as it applies to other types of tests; and it certainly applies to the battery of non-verbal ability tests, the NAT, which the ACER will publish during the next 12 months.We cannot ignore the controversy which is going on around us. No one operates in a vacuum. No matter what our present personal attitude to the use of tests in assessment might be, nothing we do can be perceived in isolation from present, and for that matter past, debate in the field.We are finding ourselves at a point in time where there is widespread concern and often fierce debate about the use of standardized tests for the assessment of individual differences and the evaluation of programs.


Author(s):  
Ron Dumont ◽  
John O. Willis ◽  
Kathleen Viezel ◽  
Jamie Zibulsky
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1963 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Kjeldergaard ◽  
John B. Carroll

The first 50 stimuli from the K-R list, two personality tests (the MCI and the GZTS), and 26 verbal ability paper-and-pencil tests were given to a large number of senior high school students. Two response categories for the K-R, opposites and non-opposite primaries, and the personality tests had low correlations, most of which did not differ significantly from zero. This finding is consistent with that of previous investigators. The correlations between the K-R response classes and the 26 verbal tests, however, yielded different results. The non-opposite primaries tended to exhibit low positive (significant) correlations with the verbal tests, whereas the opposite scores showed essentially zero correlations with these same tests. These findings were interpreted as further supporting the contention that commonality scores do not represent a unitary verbal habit.


Author(s):  
Ana F. Munoz-Sandoval ◽  
Jim Cummins ◽  
Criselda G. Alvarado ◽  
Mary L. Ruef
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2016 ◽  
pp. 51-70
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John I. Lacey
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2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ida Ayu Widya Wati ◽  
I Ketut Suarni ◽  
I Ketut Dharsana

This research aims to know the influence of behavioral counselingModeling techniquesDharmawangsa figure to improve verbal through lesson study on grade XII HIGH SCHOOL Language Lab Undiksha.This type of research is Research experiment pseudo ("Quasi alphabets experiment"). The population of this research was a HIGH SCHOOL Language class XII students of the laboratory Undiksha. Sampling techniques using a purposive sampling so that the retrieved 6 students who have low verbal ability as a group of 6 persons and more experiments as a control group. The Data collected with verbal ability tests of verbal ability.Methods of analysisthe test used wasthe t-test.Results of the study indicate that there is the influence of cognitive behavioral counseling with techniques of modeling the figure against the verbal ability of Dharmawangsa through lesson study.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Woods ◽  
Daniel P. Hinton ◽  
Sophie von Stumm ◽  
James Bellman-Jeffreys

Abstract. In this study, we examine the associations of the scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI; a measure of personality traits) with intelligence measured by four cognitive ability tests, completed by a sample of 4,876 working adults. We framed our analyses of the correlations around the investment perspective on the personality-intelligence relationship that proposes traits are associated with investment in intellectual activity, which develops cognitive abilities over time. In particular, we report associations between investment-related scales (Intellectual Efficiency, Flexibility, Achievement via Independence, Psychological-mindedness, and Tolerance) and a higher-order personality factor (Originality) of the CPI with intelligence measured at broad and narrow levels of abstraction. We found positive associations between investment-related scales, and Originality with observed ability test scores and factor g extracted from test scores. We found positive associations of traits with unique variance in verbal ability measures, but negative with measures of quantitative and visuospatial abilities. Our study extends the literature on investment theories of intelligence-personality relations, is the first study to examine the associations of multiple scales of the CPI with intelligence measures, and adds much needed data to the literature from a working adult sample.


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