We used a recently developed test of spatial memory--the Four Mountains Test--to investigate the core cognitive processes underpinning topographical disorientation in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). Performance of these clinical groups was compared with age-matched controls, patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and p...

Ensuring measurement invariance for students with disabilities is critical fair in large-scale testing. Specific learning disability constitutes the largest group among groups. In this study, it was aimed to examine of Turkish Central Exam Secondary Education according whether or not have a specific disability. 994 diagnosed formed focus group, whilst 1,000 without any constituted reference gro...

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Aptitude; Behavior Patterns; *Children; Cognitive Processes; Comprehension; Curriculum Development; Diagnostic Tests; *Educational Diagnosis; Emotional Disturbances; Intelligence; *Intelligence Tests; Learning Disabilities; Measurement Techniques; Measures (Individuals); Perceptual Development; *Performance Tests; Prediction; Scaling; Student Place...

The validity of three subtests of the Dynamic Indicators for Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) was investigated for kindergarten children in a large urban school district. A stratified, random sample of 330 participants was drawn from an entire cohort of kindergarten children. Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, and Nonsense Word Fluency evidenced significant concurrent and ...

This study examined correlations between WISC-R and K-ABC subtests in a sample of 101 children referred for learning disabilities. A considerable overlap between the two instruments was found. Separate factor analyses of the WISC-R and K-ABC were conducted. By and large, the WISC-R factor structure was similar to that found for standardization samples. Three factors emerged, namely Verbal Compr...