General Cognitive Ability And Development Of Its Test

Objective: The aim of this study was to: (1) define the concept of general cognitive ability; (2) develop a new General Cognitive Ability Test and (3) examine the reliability and validity of the test.Method: First, through the consult massive domestic and foreign literature, gives this research to the general cognitive ability definition, in this foundation, unifies the information processing theory, synthesizes domestic and foreign to general cognitive ability test theory and the practical research, preliminary establishment general cognitive ability test (first draft) theory frame. Next, administer the general cognitive ability test (first draft), the effective testee is 135 (female 75, male 60), through statistical analysis, item analysis, expert interview, to general cognitive ability test (first draft) the items carries on the essential deletion and the revision, simultaneously determined the time of the five examinations, thus forms the general cognitive ability test. Finally, examine the reliability and validity of the test, the effective testee is 243 (female 149, male 94), selects re-reliability coefficient to examine the test reliability, examined the criterion validity and the structure validity.result:1,general cognitive ability definition. General cognitive ability origins from in Spearman's two factor theory g factor, it is the intelligence (intelligence) operation definition, but its itself operation definition is process information ability, namely: Individual each kind of ability which applies in the cognition process. For example: Felt ability, perception ability, the memory, the attention, the imagination, the power of thought and so on all are common cognition abilities.2,general cognitive ability test minute examination. Five examinations respectively is: Graph inference, object match, computation, string of character contrast, transcription numeral. Has surveyed separately: Power of thought, perception ability, and work memory ability, information processing speed, attention.3,administer time. Five minute examinations time respectively is: The graph inference (16 minutes), the computation (13 minutes), the graph match (6 minutes), the string of character contrast (5 minutes), the digital arrangement (2 minutes), complete general cognitive ability test the total time are 42 minutes.4,reliability. General cognitive ability test and five examinations rereliability coefficient between 0.350 ** - 0.835 **. 5,Structure validity. Selected the development change, with the Raven intelligence examination correlation, the factor analysis,three kind of technologies examined structure validity of the entire examination .The research demonstrated that,(1)the score difference of three disparity in age level achieve e the significance, along the age the increase, also gradually increases in general cognitive ability test score, but between high the third year and the big second year group's difference is not remarkable(2) general cognitive ability test and five examinations and between the Raven standard inference examination has the suitable high correlation, in 0.400 ** to 0.713 ** between.(3) through the exploring factor analysis, has withdrawn a factor from the general cognitive ability test, explained 47.784% variance variations.6,criterion validity. Selected the academic achievement and others rater as the criterion. The research demonstrated that,(1) the general cognitive ability test total score with three schoolwork total scores, mathematics result correlation had been achieved the level of significance, respectively was 0.530 ** and 0.389*, but with the language, English result correlation has not achieved the significance level.(2) between the general cognitive ability test total score and mathematics, English appraisal correlation had achieved the level of significance, respectively was 0.352* and 0.359*, but has not achieved the significance level with the language appraisalConclusion: Generally speaking, general cognitive ability test has good reliability, the structure validity and the criterion connection validity, but also has the further consummation need in the different minute examination.