Sternberg (2017) summarizes the history of identification of giftedness in the 20th century and presents a case for the shortcomings of measures such as IQ for problem-solving skills required in the 21st century. The Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership (ACCEL) model is proposed to replace the outdated construct of IQ, particularly…

Background: Fathers have unique influences on children's development, and particularly in the development of social skills. Although father-child relationship influences on children's social competence have received increased attention in general, research on fathering in families of children with developmental delays (DD) is scant. This study…

The goal of this first major report from the Western Reserve Reading Project Math component is to explore the etiology of the relationship among tester-administered measures of mathematics ability, reading ability, and general cognitive ability. Data are available on 314 pairs of monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twins analyzed across 5 waves of…

IN THIS INVESTIGATION, AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF SYSTEMATIC VARIATIONS OF SELECTED CONDITIONS OF REINFORCEMENT. EMPLOYED AS SUBJECTS WERE THREE GROUPS OF CHILDREN (MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, INTELLECTUALLY NORMAL, AND INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR), ALL OF WHOM HAVE MENTAL AGES (REVISED STANFORD-BINET, FORM L) WITHIN THE 9 TO 12-YEAR…

The cognitive determinants of number series completion performance were studied by presenting a systematic set of problems to college adults and to average- and high-IQ elementary school children. In each group, a combination of process and content-knowledge variables accounted for more than 70 percent of the variance in solution difficulty.…

Program objectives were to develop children's abilities to deal with everyday and school related problems, and to make them more inner-directed by (1) developing a positive self-image, (2) increasing sensory and perceptual acuity, (3) improving language skills, and (4) improving problem-solving and concept formation abilities. Forty-five…

This annual report describes the results of the second year (academic year 1967-68) of research work done in the Child Development Research and Evaluation Center for Head Start at Temple University. Part One of this report discusses the Center's National Data Program and sets out in tabular form demographic and cognitive data obtained on 86 urban…