Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is an individually administered test that examines the cognitive ability of children and adults falling the age-range of 2 to 85+ years. It examines children with intellectual and developmental deficiencies as well as intellectually gifted individuals. This test originated from The Binet-Simon Scale (1905) and had undergone five major revisions. This presentation gives an overview of all five of them with most emphasis on the fifth edition by Roid (2003).
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale is an individually administered test that examines the cognitive ability of children and adults falling the age-range of 2 to 85+ years. It examines children with intellectual and developmental deficiencies as well as intellectually gifted individuals. This test originated from The Binet-Simon Scale (1905) and had undergone five major revisions. This presentation gives an overview of all five of them with most emphasis on the fifth edition by Roid (2003).
Aptitude (Test) and their Nature and CharacteristicsSubhankar Rana
Aptitude is a future potentiality of an individual therefore we predict a person's future success in a particular field.
#Aptitude #Measurement & Evaluation #Achievement #Future potentiality #Ability
Intelligence test used in the forensic psychology.
There are different tests are used to measure the intelligence or IQ of a person. Such as,
Ravens Progressive Matrices
Bhatia Battery of Intelligence
Culture Fair test
Wechsler scale
Alexander Pass a long test
etc.
Aptitude (Test) and their Nature and CharacteristicsSubhankar Rana
Aptitude is a future potentiality of an individual therefore we predict a person's future success in a particular field.
#Aptitude #Measurement & Evaluation #Achievement #Future potentiality #Ability
Intelligence test used in the forensic psychology.
There are different tests are used to measure the intelligence or IQ of a person. Such as,
Ravens Progressive Matrices
Bhatia Battery of Intelligence
Culture Fair test
Wechsler scale
Alexander Pass a long test
etc.
Language proficiency assessment oral language
Language proficiency or linguistic proficiency is the ability of an individual to speak or perform in an acquired language.
What is an IQ testing | IQ Score | IQ LevelSteve Davis
IQ tests, short for intelligence quotient tests, are designed to measure cognitive abilities like problem-solving, reasoning, and logic. They present a variety of challenges and analyze your performance compared to others in your age group. The resulting score aims to offer a snapshot of your intellectual potential.
However, IQ testing is a complex topic with ongoing debate. While it can be a valuable tool in some situations, it's important to understand its limitations. Here's a breakdown:
What IQ Tests Measure: IQ tests typically involve multiple sections assessing various cognitive skills. These might include verbal reasoning (understanding and using language), spatial reasoning (visualizing and manipulating objects), working memory (holding and manipulating information), and processing speed (how quickly you can complete tasks).
Uses of IQ Tests: IQ assessments can serve various purposes, including:
Educational Placement: Identifying gifted students or those needing extra support.
Cognitive Evaluation: Assessing intellectual disabilities or learning difficulties.
Research: Studying human intelligence and its development. (Note: Rarely used for job selection due to limitations)
Beyond the Score: An IQ score is just one piece of the puzzle. Intelligence is multifaceted, encompassing creativity, emotional intelligence, social skills, and practical knowledge. Life experiences and cultural background can also influence performance on IQ tests.
Is IQ Testing Right for You?
If you're curious about IQ testing, consulting a psychologist is the best first step. They can determine if testing is appropriate and explain the results in detail. Remember, an IQ score doesn't define your intelligence or potential. It's just one tool for understanding your cognitive strengths.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
2. NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE
• Nonverbal intelligence describes thinking skills and
problem-solving abilities that do not fundamentally
require verbal language production and comprehension.
This type of intelligence involves manipulating or
problem solving about visual information and may vary in
the amount of internalized, abstract, or conceptual
reasoning and motor skills that are required to complete
a task. Nonverbal intelligence is often closely linked with
the Performance IQ domain of intellectual ability tests
that evaluates nonverbal abilities, a domain which is
often viewed in comparison to the Verbal IQ domain.
3. Concepts and Skills Involved in
Nonverbal Tasks
Nonverbal tasks may involve concepts such as:
• Concrete or abstract ideas
• Internalized language-based reasoning
• Internalized reasoning without language
Nonverbal tasks involve skills such as:
• The ability to recognize visual sequences and remember them
• Understanding the meaning of visual information and
recognizing relationships between visual concepts
• Performing visual analogies
• Recognition of causal relationships in pictured situations
4. Why Is It Important?
• In school, nonverbal intelligence is important because it enables
students to analyze and solve complex problems without relying
upon or being limited by language abilities. Many mathematical
concepts, physics problems, computer science tasks, and science
problems require strong reasoning skills.
• In addition, it is nonverbal intelligence that allows us to think
through, plan for, and implement projects. We also use nonverbal
intelligence to organize and manage our time and our belongings.
• Outside of school, nonverbal intelligence may otherwise be described
as "common sense." While a person with common sense may or may
not score high on a typical IQ test, it is common sense that gets us
through our days. A person who scores high on a typical IQ test may
not have the basic nonverbal skills to, for example, get to the grocery
store before the food runs out, put together a build-it-yourself piece
of furniture, or figure out how to organize papers in a notebook.
5. How Is It Assessed?
• Nonverbal intelligence is typically assessed in extended IQ
tests. It's important, however, to distinguish between IQ tests
which are nonverbal and IQ tests which assess nonverbal
intelligence.
• Nonverbal IQ tests such as the TONI-4 (test of nonverbal
intelligence, 4th edition) are intended to assess the basic
intelligence of people with speech and language challenges
(people with autism, aphasia, and other disabilities). In other
words, the TONI-4 is a language-free test, so the children
taking the test answer with gestures like pointing, nodding, or
blinking.
• On the other hand, tests which assess nonverbal intelligence
are actually intended to discover an individual's ability to
manage nonverbal tasks.
6. Examples of Nonverbal Intelligence
in Action
• Solving a puzzle
• Using a diagram or blueprint to build a two or three-
dimensional structure or to set up a system (for example, a
sound system, television system, etc.)
• Conceiving of and implementing a two or three-
dimensional design such as creating a drawing, a sculpture,
a shed, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing, etc.
• Creating and/or following a map
• Anticipating and/or planning for outcomes (for example,
hearing that it will snow and therefore making sure that
shovels and ice scrapers are easily available)
7. Is It Possible to Improve Nonverbal
Intelligence?
• Nonverbal intelligence may be improved by
working with hands-on tasks like picture
puzzles, blocks, and building toys, find-a-word
puzzles, mazes, and erector sets. There is also
a wide range of support systems available to
help enhance nonverbal abilities. These range
from time planners and alarms to
occupational therapy.
8. Nonverbal Intelligence Tests
Nonverbal intelligence tests measure nonverbal
reasoning. They are used to assess students who
have language processing problems or those with
limited English proficiency. In these tests, tasks
are designed to remove verbal intelligence from
the assessment of a child's reasoning abilities and
to isolate and assess a student's visual learning
skills. These tests are not designed to test all
students for their nonverbal intelligence. They are
meant for students who have speech, language,
or hearing impairments or who are not verbally
communicative.
9. Why Nonverbal Intelligence Tests
Are Needed
• Nonverbal assessments attempt to remove language barriers
in the estimation of a student's intellectual aptitude. This is
especially helpful in assessing students without speech or
who have limited language ability, those with deafness or who
are hard of hearing, and those with English language
limitations.
• Students with nonverbal autism are an example of a
population where standard IQ tests do not assess their
abilities well. Many who rank as intellectually disabled on
standard tests can be better assessed with a nonverbal
intelligence test.
10. Why Nonverbal Intelligence Tests
Are Needed
• To accommodate students with speech or language
limitations, the test can be administered either orally or by
using pantomime. Students don't need to provide oral
responses, write, or manipulate objects to take these tests.
The tests vary in how they are administered. The best designs
don't require verbal directions or spoken responses.
• Nonverbal intelligence tests can be one element of a
comprehensive assessment of a child's abilities. They are only
one factor used in the determination of a disability under the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Students
who have verbal communication difficulties need a full range
of assessments, which can include observation, interviews,
record reviews, and a variety of tests. The tests often provide
instructions in multiple languages.
11. Test Name
Author
Publisher
Publication Date
Administration and Scoring Description Educational and Clinical
Application
Universal
Nonverbal
Intelligence Test
(UNIT)
Bracken and
McCallum
Riverside Press
1998
individual administration with 6
subtest and three possible format;
abbreviated, standard and
extended
age range between 5 and 18
administration time 15 to 45
minutes depending on format
administrated
based on two tier- model of
Intelligence
yields quotient for memory,
reasoning (symbolic and non
symbolic) and a full-scale IQ
Design to assess
students from diverse
cultural backgrounds,
LEP, language and or
hearing impairments,
learning disabilities,
mental retardation
and emotional
disorders
EXAMPLES OF NONVERBAL
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
12.
13. Test Name
Author
Publisher
Publication Date
Administration and Scoring
Description
Educational and Clinical
Application
Comprehensive
Tests of Nonverbal
Intelligence
(C-TONI)
Hammill, Pearson &
Wiederholt
Pro-Ed
1997
individual administration
45 to 60 minutes
administration time
age range between 6 to 89
years
Matrix-based, multiple choice
format
allows pointing response by
examinee
may be administrated orally or
with pantomimed directions
PNIQ, GNIQ, and NIQ: mean
of 100 and standard deviation
subtests assess
analogical reasoning,
categorical
classification, and
sequential reasoning
using pictures of
family objects and
abstract geometric
designs
EXAMPLES OF NONVERBAL
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
14.
15. EXAMPLES OF NONVERBAL
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Test Name
Author
Publisher
Publication Date
Administration and Scoring Description Educational and
Clinical Application
NNAT
Naglieri-Nonverbal
Abilities Test
Naglieri
Harcourt Brace
Educational
Measurement
1997
•division & extension of matrix &
analogies test
•group of individual administration
•administration time is 30 -45 minutes;
grades k-12
•7 levels including fall & spring grade -
level norms
•matrix reasoning - pattern completion,
reasoning by analogy, signal reasoning,
and spatial reasoning
•design to assess performance
independent of stored acquired
knowledge
•yields a non verbal ability index (NAI)
with mean of 100 and standard deviation
• useful for large
scale assessment for
as an intellectual
screening measure
• co normed with
Stanford-9 and
Aprenda-2
18. WHAT IS RPM
•AN IQ ASSESSMENT
DEVELOPED TO
UNDERSTAND
“OBSERVATION”
• “CLEAR THINKING”
•HIGHER THOUGHT
PROCESS”
19. WHAT IS RPM
THE MATRICES COME
IN 3 FORMATS:
•SPM- STANDARD
PROGRESSIVE
MATRICES
•CPM- COLOURED
PROGRESSIVE
MATRICES
•APM- ADVANCED
PROGRESSIVE
MATRICES
