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Peer reviewedMcDonald, 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
Peer reviewedSchliefer, Michael – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Claims in "The Bell Curve" that Head Start and other early intervention programs are a failure and a waste of funds depend on a notion of cognitive ability reduced to IQ. They ignore other studies that demonstrate the success of such programs and that, consistent with Piagetian views, recognize the interrelationships of cognitive,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Early Intervention
