"Providing a practical guide to the training and assessment of non-technical skills within high-risk industries, this book will be of direct interest to safety and training professionals working within aviation, healthcare, rail, maritime, and other high-risk industries. Current…
OECD's triennial international survey, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students, examining not just what students know, but what they can do with what they know…
Volume I, Excellence and equity in education: Summarizes student performance in PISA 2015, and examines inclusiveness and fairness in participating education systems. Volume II, Policies and practices for successful schools: Examines how student performance is associated with v…
"The editors envision this volume as a handbook for researchers in psychology and education who target exceptional populations in their work, and particularly individuals exhibiting gifts and talents. The research tools described here can help to move the scholarship on giftedne…
Colin Cooper explains what is known about the processes associated with mental abilities and the relationship of abilities to behaviour. He provides an up-to-date guide to current research trends.
« Psychoeducational Assessment of Preschool Children, 5th Edition, provides academics and school-based practitioners such as psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers with an up-to-date guide to the assessment of young children. Long recognized as the stand…
"Psychoeducational Assessment of Preschool Children, 5th Edition, provides academics and school-based practitioners such as psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers with an up-to-date guide to the assessment of young children. Long recognized as the standa…
"Psychoeducational Assessment of Preschool Children, 5th Edition, provides academics and school-based practitioners such as psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers with an up-to-date guide to the assessment of young children. Long recognized as the standa…
General and specific mental abilities
General and specific mental abilities
The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphas…