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Narrow Assessments Misrepresent Development and Misguide Policy: Comment on Steinberg, Cauffman, Woolard, Graham, and Banich (2009)
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Fischer, Kurt W.; Stein, Zachary; Heikkinen, Katie – American Psychologist, 2009
Intellectual and psychosocial functioning develop along complex learning pathways. Steinberg, Cauffman, Woolard, Graham, and Banich measured these two classes of abilities with narrow, biased assessments that captured only a segment of each pathway and created misleading age patterns based on ceiling and floor effects. It is a simple matter to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement