Cognitive Abilities and Educational Outcomes

1. Introduction
Monica Rosén, Kajsa Yang Hansen, Ulrika Wolff

Part I. Cognitive Abilities

2. What Is Fluid Intelligence? Can It Be Improved?
Patrick Kyllonen, Harrison Kell

3. Mind and Intelligence: Integrating Developmental, Psychometric, and Cognitive Theories of Human Mind
Andreas Demetriou, George Spanoudis

4. Gender Differences in Broad and Narrow Ability Dimensions
Monica Rosén

Part I. Cognitive Abilities

5. A Question of Validity: Clarifying the Hierarchical Nature of Teacher Cognition
Sigrid Blömeke, Lars Jenßen

6. Searching for Causality to Develop and Test Theoretical Models of Educational Effectiveness Research
Leonidas Kyriakides, Bert P. M. Creemers

7. Countries Strive Towards More Quality and Equity in Education: Do They Show Success or Failure? Evidence from TIMSS 2003 and 2011, for Grade 4
Jan Damme, Kim Bellens

8. School Resources and Student Achievement: A Review of Cross-Country Economic Research
Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

9. Exploring the Effects of Following Different Tracks of Study in Upper Secondary Education on Cognitive Test Performance
Lisbeth Åberg-Bengtsson

10. Empirical Puzzles on Effective Teachers: U.S. Research
Henry M. Levin

Part III. Modelling Measurement Properties

11. Measuring Changing Educational Contexts in a Changing World: Evolution of the TIMSS and PIRLS Questionnaires
Ina V. S. Mullis, Michael O. Martin, Martin Hooper

12. General and Specific Factors in Selection Modeling
Bengt Muthén

13. Reflections on (Bi) Factor Analysis
Richard J. Shavelson, Edward W. Wiley

14. CTT and No-DIF and?=(Almost) Rasch Model
Matthias Davier

15. Balance: A Neglected Aspect of Reporting Test Results
Norman D. Verhelst

16. Views on Classical Statistical Modeling in Competition with the Rasch Methodology
Peter Allerup, André Torre

Avainsanat: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Psychometrics