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'Working its Magic'? IQ Rise and the Demography of the Classroom.

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McDonald, Geraldine – Oxford Review of Education, 1998

Discusses the reasons for the rise in IQ scores over time. Demonstrates the effect of the decrease in age at levels of schooling on the rise in IQ scores utilizing the data from the 1936 and 1968 standardization of the Otis Intermediate Test of Mental Ability, Form A, in New Zealand. (CMK)

Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Educational Change

Pathways in Development. Studies in the Learning Sciences, 4.

Bower, T. G. R. – 1977

The growth model of intelligence; i.e. intelligence is the product of genetics plus environment (I.Q.=G+E), is discussed and questioned. If the growth model is discarded, formulating the problem of the development of intelligence in different ways and thinking of different possible technologies for changing intelligence can begin. The child…

Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cultural Differences, Developmental Stages