TITLE: What No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: The Roles of IQ and Self-Control in Predicting Standardized Achievement Test Scores and Report Card Grades AUTHORS: Angela L. Duckworth, Patrick D. Quinn, Eli Tsukayama ABSTRACT The increasing prominence of standardized testing to assess student learning motivated the current investigation. We propose that standardized achievement test scores […]
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STUDY ALERT: Role of test motivation in intelligence testing
TITLE: Role of test motivation in intelligence testing AUTHORS: Angela Lee Duckwortha,1, Patrick D. Quinnb, Donald R. Lynamc, Rolf Loeberd, and Magda Stouthamer-Loeberd ABSTRACT Intelligence tests are widely assumed to measure maximal intellectual performance, and predictive associations between intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and later-life outcomes are typically interpreted as unbiased estimates of the effect of […]
STUDY ALERT: How Smart Do You Think You Are?
TITLE: How Smart Do You Think You Are? A Meta-Analysis on the Validity of Self-Estimates of Cognitive Ability AUTHORS: Philipp Alexander Freund and Nadine Kasten ABSTRACT Individuals’ perceptions of their own level of cognitive ability are expressed through self-estimates. They play an important role in a person’s self-concept because they facilitate an understanding of how […]
STUDY ALERT: Training the Brain: Practical Applications of Neural Plasticity
Title: Practical Applications of Neural Plasticity From the Intersection of Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, and Prevention Science Author: Richard L. Bryck and Philip A. Fisher Abstract Prior researchers have shown that the brain has a remarkable ability for adapting to environmental changes. The positive effects of such neural plasticity include enhanced functioning in specific cognitive […]
STUDY ALERT: High-Stakes Testing: Does It Increase Achievement?
TITLE: High-Stakes Testing: Does It Increase Achievement? AUTHOR: Sharon L. Nichols ABSTRACT I review the literature on the impact on student achievement of high-stakes testing. Its popularity as a mechanism for holding educators accountable has triggered studies to examine whether its promise to increase student learning has been fulfilled. The review concludes there is no […]
STUDY ALERT: Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments
This is an important update to Ulric Neisser et al.’s seminal 1996 article Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns.
Must One Risk Madness to Achieve Genius?
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” — Salvador Dali Must one risk getting lost in the sea of madness in order to reach the lone island of genius? While not necessarily mad, creative minds are often chaotic, untethered and unhinged. These thought processes enable a creative person […]
Introducing “STUDY ALERT”: Fluid insight moderates the relationship between psychoticism and crystallized intelligence
Truth is: I’ve become increasingly agitated by most science reporting of psychological studies. Somewhere along the way, something usually gets misrepresented. Maybe it’s the sensational title. Maybe it’s the misquoting. Maybe it’s a misunderstanding of what a correlation means or what constitutes a large or meaningful effect size or the equating of a gene with […]
Educational Psychologist Kevin McGrew: An IQ Test Maker Who Goes Beyond IQ
Dr. Kevin McGrew is the Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP). He received a masters degree in school psychology at Moorhead State University and his doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He was a practicing school psychologist for 12 years. He spent 10 years as a Professor of Applied […]
Who Is Currently Identified as Gifted in the United States?
Today, lots of different definitions of giftedness exist. This wasn’t always the case. Prior to 1972, practically every school used one criterion and one criterion only to identify giftedness: an IQ cut-off of 130. This criterion was heavily influenced by the pioneering work of Lewis Terman, who equated high IQ with genius.
The Will and Ways of Hope
Talent, skill, ability—whatever you want to call it—will not get you there. Sure, it helps. But a wealth of psychological research over the past few decades show loud and clear that it’s the psychological vehicles that really get you there. You can have the best engine in the world, but if you can’t be bothered […]
The Origins of Positive-Constructive Daydreaming
[This article was written by Scott Barry Kaufman and Jerome L. Singer] Once accused of being absent-minded, the founder of American Psychology, William James, quipped that he was really just present-minded to his own thoughts. William James didn’t just live in his own head, but he also studied the phenomenon, coining the term “stream of […]