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Seashore, Carl E. – Music Educators Journal, 1979
This article originally appeared in March, 1940 as "Why No Great Women Composers?" The author, a psychologist, finds no sex differences in music achievement traceable to ability or opportunity, but feels that a woman's fundamental urge is to be loved, while a man's is to achieve in a career. (SJL)
Descriptors: Ability, Females, Goal Orientation, Males
Blum, Jeffrey M. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
This reviewer finds that Lewis M. Terman's five-volume "Genetic Studies of Genius," published between 1925 and 1959, makes exaggerated claims for IQ scores as measures of natural ability. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Ability, Book Reviews, Creativity, Genetics
Lemann, Nicholas – 1999
In the United States today tests of the ability to perform well in school divide society and define opportunity. Higher education has become a major focus of aspirations people hold for their children, and educational testing determines who qualifies for higher education. This history recounts the development of intelligence testing and its early…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Aspiration, Educational History, Educational Testing
Hill, Wilhelmina – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin has been prepared to assist teachers and persons serving on curriculum committees in improving the quality of unit teaching and planning for elementary schools. The suggestions and illustrations grow out of a study made by the author of over 500 social studies units which were published during the last few years. They also result…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Social Studies