Tuesday, January 31, 2006

ETS Accommodating Students with Disabilities on State Assessments conference

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Registration information is now available for the ETS sponsored "Accommodating Students with Disabilities on State Assessments: What W...

E-assessment lit review posted

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FYI from the " Authentic Assessment Web site " E-assessment literature review .......The National Endowment for Science Technology...

Accessible reading assessments - NARAP and PARA

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FYI.... The National Accessible Reading Assessment Projects (NARAP) is a collaboration of projects funded by the U.S. Department of Educati...
Monday, January 30, 2006

CHC human cognitive elements table

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Over on the IAP CHC listserv someone suggested that there might be a need for a CHC table of human cognitive elements, to help impress oth...

Cross-cultural 3 to 5 year old cognitive development study

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Cross-cultural study compares cognitive development in 3-to-5-year-olds Thanks to Adrew Livanis for a post regarding the following article. ...

Quote to note - Certainties and doubts - Sir Francis Bacon

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Sir Francis Bacon "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shal...

New normal children fMRI database project

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Thanks to Mind Hacks for the FYI re: a new fMRI database of normally developing childrens brains. Revolutionary child brain database launche...

Risk taking and intelligence - thanks to the DI blog

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Nice post and discussion, plus links to other comments re: methodological study flaws, regarding recent research that suggests a link betwee...

Off task - quantoid art - photo equations

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For the quantoids of this blog. Thanks to Boing Boing for the FYI post regarding mathematical equation photo art. My Xmas shopping for next...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Memory and autistic children study - with CHC interpretation

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Hat tip to Andrew Livanis for posting information regarding a recent research article dealing with memory functioning in autistic children. ...

Flynn Effect in UK - "Intelligence in UK declining?"

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Interesting post at Gene Expression regarding the Flynn Effect . Intelligence in UK declining? "..........Today's London Sunday ...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Recent literature of interest 01-28-06 posted

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This weeks "recent literature" of interest can be viewed/downloaded by clicking here . Technorati tags: teaching tool. psycholo...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Neural oscillations and Mozart Effect fyi

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Check out the very nice treatment and discussion of the "Mozart Effect" over on the Developing Intelligence blog. A hat tip to ...

Gv (Visual spatial processing) teaching tool

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A video demo at the Mind Institute (click on "Upright JiJI" demo) might be a good teaching tool for demonstrating the Gv ability...

Werner Wittman gender differences - more discussion

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Society Decides Against Boys A return tip of the hat to Al Fin for following up on my FYI post regarding Werner Wittman's presentation o...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Bilingualism and growing your brain

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Bilingualism is Good for You post over at the Eide Neurolearning Blog. "Although it does require extra cognitive work and attention to...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Wittman paper/presentation re: gender and academic success posted

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Werner Wittman has updated his web page with links to a paper/presentation (Gender Differences in Academic Success) made at the 2005 Inte...

Interactive metronome - synchronized metronome tapping

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Andrew Livanis has weighed in with his thoughts regarding synchronoized metronome tapping as a potentially useful academic-related interven...
Sunday, January 22, 2006

More on gender IQ difference research.

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Al Fin takes off on my recent gender difference study post re: the NNAT test, adds a little visual humor (Al Fin - beware of the PC polic...

Intelligence and national wealth

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Ok....this is getting off-the-beaten path re: practical applications of intelligence theory and tests....but.....it can make for good cockta...