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Specific Deficits in Component Reading and Language Skills: Genetic and Environmental Influences.
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Olson, Richard; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Word recognition data from identical and fraternal twins and siblings (N=172) indicated that the phonological coding deficit of children with reading disabilities was highly heritable. Orthographic coding was not significantly heritable. Poor readers with low IQs were superior to similar reading but average IQ readers in phonological coding.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Abilities of North American Orientals: A Study in Acculturation.
Vernon, Philip E. – 1982
Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the United States and Canada have survived years of discrimination and oppression and today demonstrate academic and professional achievements that are often better than those of whites. However, the Asians continue to obtain higher scores on nonverbal/spatial tests than on verbal tests and tend to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
The External Validity of Age-versus IQ-Discrepancy Definitions of Reading Disability: Lessons from a Twin Study.
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Pennington, Bruce F.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study of 640 twins with reading disability and 436 controls (mean age 12) examined external validity of the distinction between specific reading retardation and reading backwardness, in 3 domains: genetic etiology, sex ratio and clinical correlates, and neuropsychological profiles. There was no evidence of differential genetic etiology of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
A Synopsis of Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (New York, Free Press, 1994).
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Belke, Terry W. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Neutral summary of "The Bell Curve" (Herrnstein and Murray) by a former student of Herrnstein. Focuses on the emergence of a cognitive elite in the United States; relationships between IQ and poverty, educational attainment, unemployment, divorce, illegitimacy, welfare dependency, parenting competence, criminal behaviors, and voting;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Heredity, Higher Education
Meta-Comments: A Discussion of Critiques of L. M. Dunn's Monograph for "Bilingual Hispanic Children on the U. S. Mainland."
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Berliner, David C. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1988
Reviews criticism of Dunn's monograph on Hispanic-Anglo differences in IQ scores. Discusses the heritability and malleability of IQ, the reciprocal relationship between achievement and intelligence, negative effects of schooling for some caste-like minorities, and superior cognitive skills among balanced bilingual students. Contains 19 references.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Influences
Intelligence and Social Policy.
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Kirby, John R. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Argues that Herrnstein and Murray's cognitive stratification is not intrinsically ominous, since context determines its meaning; their "intelligence" data actually measures educational achievement; environmental effects are underestimated; and analyses and social policy recommendations are bound to the U.S. context. Concludes that…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Attainment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education