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Direct linkKovas, Y.; Petrill, S. A.; Plomin, R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
The authors assessed 2,502 ten-year-old children, members of 1,251 pairs of twins, on a Web-based battery of problems from 5 diverse aspects of mathematics assessed as part of the U.K. national curriculum. This 1st genetic study into the etiology of variation in different domains of mathematics showed that the heritability estimates were moderate…
Descriptors: Etiology, National Curriculum, Genetics, Twins
Kovas, Y.; Harlaar, N.; Petrill, S. A.; Plomin, R. – Intelligence, 2005
Mathematics performance at 7 years as assessed by teachers using UK national curriculum criteria has been found to be highly heritable. For almost 3000 pairs of 7-year-old same-sex twins, we used multivariate genetic analysis to investigate the extent to which these genetic effects on mathematics performance overlap with genetic effects on reading…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Genetics, Twins, Mathematics Teachers
