Miguel, is the measure of test-wiseness you mentioned free and simple
enough for us to use? Maybe a better first question would be, does your
Psych Lit search reveal that the question is sufficiently answered?
Anything available on the Web -- without requiring subscriptions?
John, for whatever reason I could not access Psych. Lit all afternoon, but I do recall when I was browsing through a few of the abstracts that the questionnaire, and there are likely to be more than one, was an experimental instrument which I interpret to mean that it is a measure that can be freely used for research purposes.
David Campbell wrote:
>What I really had was evidence that some students are simply sharper (in the mental sense). They have better memories, broader >vocabularies, more extensive background knowledge (from general reaading and previous course work), and can more easily >comprehend complex material. That is, they were higher in the "g" factor. So they could put little time into their study, use few of >my study tips (maybe even simply read the chapter once and take notes in class) and still remember/understand/apply the >material better than the students who had to put in far more time--and retain less!
I am also virtually certain that the g factor is strongly related to test-wiseness, but I still think that test-wiseness is a fairly independent construct representing an ability that can probably be acquired to some extent (and that's where g comes in!).
Miguel
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