Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)Among particular issues discussed in this book are the problems of the cultural disadvantaged, the problems of devising psychological tests which are not biased towards any particular culture, the problems of minority groups of children in education and the relationship between heritability and teachability. |
Contents
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psychological and educational aspects
| 86 |
Understanding readiness
| 116 |
The role of verbal mediation in mental development
| 131 |
Another look at culturefair testing
| 167 |
Selection of minority students in higher education
| 223 |
Do schools cheat minority children?
| 274 |
Can we and should we study race differences?
| 342 |
The phylogeny and ontogeny of intelligence
| 382 |
The heritability of intelligence
| 389 |
Heritability and teachability
| 398 |
References
| 434 |
AUTHOR INDEX
| 453 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 457 |
Varieties of individual differences in learning
| 322 |
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Educational Differences (RLE Edu L) Arthur Jensen,Associate Professor of Speech Communication Arthur Jensen No preview available - 2014 |
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academic aptitude associative assortative mating average behavior cent child cognitive common complex concept corrected for attenuation correlation culturally disadvantaged culture-fair degree digit span disadvantaged children distribution educational effects environment evidence example fact factor analysis function genes genetic factors genotypes grade group differences heritability hierarchical high school higher hypothesis individual differences inheritance of intelligence input instruction intellectual intelligence tests interaction IQ difference IQ points Jensen learning ability learning tasks Level I ability low-SES lower mean measure ment mental abilities mental development middle-class Negro non-verbal normal distribution parents persons phenotypic population predict problem processes programs Progressive Matrices psychological psychometric racial groups Raven's Progressive Matrices reared relatively retroactive inhibition rote learning sample scholastic achievement scholastic performance selection serial learning skills social class socio-economic status standard deviation Stanford-Binet status-fair stimulus subjects test scores theory tion trait twins variables variance verbal mediation