Friday, September 04, 2026

A proposed shift in education (and assessment) to a more European notion of aptitude (i.e., Snow’s aptitude-trait complexes) compared to the IQ-centric US notion of aptitude

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Since the early 2000’s, starting with the NCLB education reform movement in US education, I’ve have believed that Richard Snow’s notion of “...

Research Alert: Dispelling Myths and Misunderstandings About Defining and Remediating Dyslexia

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Link to journal article, which is open access is here .   Abstract Despite a strong base of scientifically supported research on dyslexia, p...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

More on “g is the Loch Ness Monster of psychology”

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They say “a picture is worth a thousand words.”  How about the following 6 pictures?  See prior “g is the Loch Ness monster of psychology” p...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Research Alert: Is It Mine or Not Mine? Cognitive Offloading to Generative AI and Concern over the Erosion of Cognitive Ownership

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Email-based research alert—open access link to download   Is It Mine or Not Mine? Cognitive Offloading to Generative AI an...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Research Alert: Proximal and distal factors influencing performance in mental and written calculations: A study with the network analysis

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  An open access article that can be dowloaded and read. 👍   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844026007565   Click ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Research alert: Specific cognitive abilities: A discussion of advantages and disadvantages of measurement methods - ScienceDirect

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Important article for CHC g, broad, narrow cognitive ability and achievement research.   Specific cognitive abilities: A d...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Combining multiple intelligence test scores (IQs) into a grand psychometrically sound estimate. Joel Schneider’s free on-line web app.

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In an earlier post in March, I alerted readers to a new journal publication that presented a psychometrically sound rational and method for ...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Research Alert. Approaches to Identifying STEM Talent in K-12 Gifted Education: A Systematic Review

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Quick email research alert blog from iPhone—-good news, this is an open access article available at article link below😉   ...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Highly recommended AI paper regarding human & AI capabilities. HCQM: A dual-use human capability assessment and prescriptive target for engineering synthetic cognitive architectures (AI)

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I recently exchanged emails and zoomed with Kameron Green  who works in the AI space regarding his proposed  Human Capability Quotient Map  ...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Research Alert: When Can AI Models Explain Learning? Validity Criteria for AI as Cognitive Models in Education

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This is a quick email-based research alert….this is also an open access article you can download.😉   When Can AI Models E...
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Research Alert: Cognitive (CHC)–Mathematics Relations: A Meta-Analysis of Norm-Referenced Standardized Test Batteries

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This is an impressive, and much needed, contribution to the CHC cognitive-math achievement relations modeling research literature.  It is op...