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Simonton, Dean Keith – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
With just one exception, all of the volumes in Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius report the results of a longitudinal study of more than a thousand intellectually gifted children. That single exception is Volume II, Cox's single-authored "The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses," which instead was a retrospective study of 301…
Descriptors: Gifted, Individual Characteristics, Intelligence Quotient, History
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Kutuev, Ruslan A.; Kudyasheva, Albina N.; Buldakova, Natalya V.; Aleksandrova, Natalia S.; Vasilenko, Alexandra S. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The research urgency is caused by the tendencies of the modern information society which produces and consumes intelligence, knowledge and competences as the main educational product of labor market. These trends fundamentally alter the methodological basis of the educational process of the University, subjecting it to imperative goals: the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Intellectual Development, Knowledge Level
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Mizimbayeva, Almira; Ashirbayeva, Nazilya; Oralkenuly, Danabek; Sabyt, Taulanov – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article presents different opinions for the concept of "research culture," gives the characteristics of this phenomenon from the point of view of the pedagogical science including the functions, components of this phenomenon; the article studies the complex of research skills as the basis of the research culture. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intellectual Development, Research, Preservice Teachers
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Safatly, Lise; Itani, Hiba; El-Hajj, Ali; Salem, Dania – Ethics and Education, 2017
In modern and well-structured universities, ethics centers are playing a key role in hosting, organizing, and managing activities to enrich and guide students' ethical thinking and analysis. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the goals, activities, and administration of ethics centers, as well as their role in promoting ethical thinking…
Descriptors: College Role, Ethics, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Damonse, B. A.; Nkomo, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Research is a key indicator of university performance and research leadership is a critical variable in achieving research excellence. This qualitative research study examined the "research stories" of ten research performing academics and the reported research and mentoring experiences of a sample of 30 of their postgraduate mentees to…
Descriptors: Leadership, Educational Change, Qualitative Research, Intellectual Development
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Kail, Robert – Journal of School Psychology, 2000
Explores the nature and consequences of developmental change in speed of information processing. Summarizes evidence indicating that age differences in processing speed reflect a global mechanism that limits processing speed on most tasks. Describes evidence that suggests a role for processing speed on the development of intelligence. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development, Memory
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DiLalla, Lisabeth F. – Journal of School Psychology, 2000
Explores the development of intelligence from different perspectives, each of which is relevant for researchers and practitioners interested in children's school performance. Provides information from basic research to better inform prevention and intervention efforts for improving children's school grades and behaviors. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Children, Intellectual Development
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Miscione, John L.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Fundamental Concepts, Intellectual Development
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1978
Infants from low socioeconomic status families were randomly assigned to either an instructional day care program designed to prevent socioculturally caused mental retardation or to a nonintervention control group. The effects of these environments were then compared for fetally malnourished infants in terms of later intellectual functioning and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention
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Bishop, J. Michael – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
Contemporary medical students, it is suggested, view science in particular and the intellect in general as difficult allies at best. What emerges are physicians without inquiring minds, physicians who bring to the bedside not curiosity and a desire to understand but a set of reflexes. (MLW)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Instruction, Educational Improvement, Higher Education
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Renner, John W.; Phillips, Darrell G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1980
This article supports the learning theory and intellectual development model of Jean Piaget as a theory base for science education. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Research, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Desruisseaux, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Yale University Films' mission to make scholarly ideas more accessible to the general public is about to be realized when they broadcast a film on James Boswell to a national television audience. The movie is based on the journals of the eighteenth century Scottish diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Biographies, Film Production, Films
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Lawson, Anton E.; Shepherd, Gene D. – Language and Speech, 1979
Finds that various aspects of formal reasoning correlated significantly with mean t-unit lengths written by high school freshman boys, but not by freshman girls. Suggests that the reasoning tasks may have been biased against females. (RL)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, High School Students
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Gardner, John N.; Barefoot, Betsy – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1991
An interview with David Riesman, founder of Harvard University's (Massachusetts) freshman seminar program, covers the origins and structure of the seminars, Riesman's own college experience, the importance of the college experience, faculty research, and the role of faculty in student intellectual development. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, First Year Seminars, Higher Education
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Lazerson, Marvin – Change, 1998
Faculty fellowships, designed to foster individual achievement, are in trouble as doubts emerge about individual efficacy in a global environment that requires teamwork and collaboration. They have become politicized, divided by conflicts over criteria. If they are to be renewed, the dominance of research over teaching and service must be…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Trends, Faculty Fellowships