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Peer reviewedMorgan, Harry – Black Scholar, 1973
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, Compensatory Education, Environmental Influences, Genetics
Cass, James – Saturday Rev, 1969
From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Eysenck, Hans J. – 1971
The controversy over the causes of intelligence--genetic or environmental--is reviewed. More specifically, the subject of the consistently lower intelligence scores for blacks is analyzed. Much attention is devoted to Jensen and his monograph published in the "Harvard Educational Review," entitled "How much can we boost IQ and scholastic…
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Educational Development, Environmental Research
Download full textSheldon, M. Stephen; And Others – 1972
A study was conducted to investigate the predictive validity of parents' ability to attend to their children (ATA) on intelligence and to determine to what extent ATA and social class variables, in combination, can account for the discrepancy in the IQ scores of children of different races. Ss were 700 Head Start children. The criterion variables…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Intellectual Development, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
Pezzullo, Thomas R.; And Others – 1972
Heritability is defined as the proportion of a manifested trait's varience that is due to genetic variation. Sixty-five pairs of twins were employed to investigate the heritability of: (1) short term memory (Jensen's Level 1), operationalized using of modified "digit span" test; (2) the general intellective factor (Jensen's Level II),…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Compensatory Education, Genetics, Heredity
Kagan, Jerome S. – Harvard Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Genetics, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Contents of this compilation of testimony include: (1) statements by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, professor of genetics, Stanford University; Richard A. Goldsby; Irving I. Gottesman, professor of psychology, University of Minnesota; Arthur R. Jensen; and Jane R. Mercer, associate professor of sociology, University of California, Riverside; (2) such…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Compensatory Education, Educational Policy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1970
In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Henry E. Garrett, Chairman, Psychology Department (Emeritus), Columbia University; Dr. Arthur R. Jensen, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Frank C. J. McGurk, Professor of Psychology, University of Montevallo; Dr. R. Travis Osborne,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Black Students
