'Working its Magic'? IQ Rise and the Demography of the Classroom.

McDonald, Geraldine

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ERIC Number: EJ605828

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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'Working its Magic'? IQ Rise and the Demography of the Classroom.

McDonald, Geraldine

Oxford Review of Education, v24 n2 p225-34 Jun 1998

Discusses the reasons for the rise in IQ scores over time. Demonstrates the effect of the decrease in age at levels of schooling on the rise in IQ scores utilizing the data from the 1936 and 1968 standardization of the Otis Intermediate Test of Mental Ability, Form A, in New Zealand. (CMK)

Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient, Mental Age, Primary Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand

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