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Another Failure to Replicate Lynn's Estimate of the Average IQ of Sub-Saharan Africans
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Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; Carlson, Jerry S.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
In his comment on our literature review of data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven's Progressive Matrices, Lynn (this issue) criticized our selection of samples of primary and secondary school students. On the basis of the samples he deemed representative, Lynn concluded that the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans stands at 67…
Descriptors: Legislators, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries
Children's Writing Ability: Effects of Parent's Education, Mental Speed and Intelligence
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Rindermann, Heiner; Michou, Christina Dimitra; Thompson, James – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Verbal ability comprises receptive (understanding) and active (producing) facets. While the first (e.g. as literacy in PIRLS and PISA) is frequently analyzed in its relationship to further cognitive abilities and parental attributes the latter is rarely investigated. The present study using data from N=280 students aged 9 to 14 years investigated…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Childrens Writing, Writing Ability, Psychometrics
Dangerous Mindsets: How Beliefs about Intelligence Predict Motivational Change
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Haimovitz, Kyla; Wormington, Stephanie V.; Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined how beliefs about intelligence, as mediated by ability-validation goals, predicted whether students lost or maintained levels of intrinsic motivation over the course of a single academic year. 978 third- through eighth-grade students were surveyed in the fall about their theories concerning the malleability of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Student Motivation, Academic Ability, Beliefs
Enhancing Academic Performance and Social and Emotional Competence with the RULER Feeling Words Curriculum
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Brackett, Marc A.; Rivers, Susan E.; Reyes, Maria R.; Salovey, Peter – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
A pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was used to test the impact of a 30-week, theoretically-based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, The RULER Feeling Words Curriculum ("RULER"), on the academic performance and social and emotional competence of 5th and 6th grade students (N = 273) in fifteen classrooms in three schools.…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Emotional Intelligence, Student Behavior, Academic Achievement