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Mc Ewen, Birgitta – Science & Education, 2022
Epigenetics, the new research field at the cutting edge of biology research, needs to be introduced in biology education. The aim of this review is to support biology teachers and other non-experts to get an overview of the field, as a review in epigenetics has hardly been written for these groups. This review was done by finding documents…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Science Teachers, Lay People
Sam Trejo – Grantee Submission, 2024
Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Prenatal Influences, Genetics, Hypothesis Testing
Zheng, Lei; Chen, Jie; Li, Xinying; Gan, Yiqun – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Future orientation tends to prevent engagement in risk behaviours and results in good academic performance among adolescents. Our study aimed to establish whether genetic factors contributed to future orientation among Chinese adolescents. We recruited 988 pairs of twins from Beijing. By constructing a high-order A (additive genetic variance) C…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Twins, Orientation
Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Bruno Sauce; John Wiedenhoeft; Nicholas Judd; Torkel Klingberg – npj Science of Learning, 2021
The interplay of genetic and environmental factors behind cognitive development has preoccupied multiple fields of science and sparked heated debates over the decades. Here we tested the hypothesis that developmental genes rely heavily on cognitive challenges - as opposed to natural maturation. Starting with a polygenic score (cogPGS) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Short Term Memory
Pener-Tessler, Roni; Markovitch, Noam; Knafo-Noam, Ariel – Developmental Science, 2022
Despite the importance of self-control for well-being and adjustment, its development from early childhood to early adolescence has been relatively understudied. We addressed the development of mother-reported self-control in what is likely the largest and longest longitudinal twin study of the topic to this day (N = 1889 individual children with…
Descriptors: Self Control, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies, Children
Martschenko, Daphne – Research in Education, 2020
Behavioural genetics regards intelligence and educational attainment as highly heritable (genetically influenced) and polygenic (influenced by many genes) traits. Researchers in the field have moved beyond identifying whether and how much genes influence a given outcome to trying to pinpoint the genetic markers that help predict them. In more…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Genetics, Intelligence, Role
Antonelli-Ponti, Mayra; Monticelli, Patrícia Ferreira; Aparecido da Silva, José – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Mental disorders are disorders of the cognitive, emotional or behavioral condition of an individual. They can have several origins and are usually associated with expressive anguish and difficulty in various aspects of life, including school education. Mental disorders are accompanied by social stigmas which may be linked to the belief in genetic…
Descriptors: Genetics, Attribution Theory, Etiology, Mental Disorders
Tatar, Mustafa – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
Socialization is the process of learning to be a human being that is born with the potential to be human. In this process, the person learns the basic values and norms of the society in which he lives, as well as the skills necessary to sustain his life. This learning takes place through parents, siblings, relatives, neighbors, peers, teachers,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Foreign Countries, Interaction, Social Isolation
Ebeling, Smillo; Gebhard, Ulrich – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
Gene technologies are developing at a high speed. Yet, the understandings and ethical conceptions about these developments are not sufficiently scrutinized and reflected. Our qualitative analysis examines everyday myths of younger generations about genome editing; these contribute to a complex fabric of rationally and intuitively justified…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Ethics, Adolescent Attitudes
Guang Guo; Meng-Jung Lin; Kathleen Mullan Harris – npj Science of Learning, 2022
This research examines how the human genome and SES jointly and interactively shape verbal ability among youth in the U.S. The youth are aged 12-18 when the study starts. The research draws on findings from the latest GWAS as well as a rich set of longitudinal SES measures at individual, family and neighborhood levels from Add Health (N = 7194).…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Trejo, Sam; Domingue, Benjamin W. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Results from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) can be used to generate a polygenic score (PGS), an individual-level measure summarizing identified genetic influence on a trait dispersed across the genome. For complex, behavioral traits, the association between an individual's PGS and their phenotype may contain bias (from geographic,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Individual Characteristics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Heredity
Snyder, Kate E.; Pittard, Caroline M.; Fowler, Allison; Watson, Corey T. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Mental health researchers emphasize the importance of practitioner understanding of biology-environment interplay. Accordingly, our goal of the study described in this article was to understand students' preconceptions and misconceptions about biological and environmental influences on development through investigating their conceptions of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Misconceptions, Child Development, Environmental Influences
Wertz, Jasmin; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Agnew-Blais, Jessica; Arseneault, Louise; Belsky, Daniel W.; Corcoran, David L.; Houts, Renate; Matthews, Timothy; Prinz, Joseph A.; Richmond-Rakerd, Leah S.; Sugden, Karen; Williams, Benjamin; Caspi, Avshalom – Child Development, 2020
This study tested implications of new genetic discoveries for understanding the association between parental investment and children's educational attainment. A novel design matched genetic data from 860 British mothers and their children with home-visit measures of parenting: the E-Risk Study. Three findings emerged. First, both mothers' and…
Descriptors: Genetics, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Children
The Stability of Educational Achievement across School Years Is Largely Explained by Genetic Factors
Kaili Rimfeld; Margherita Malanchini; Eva Krapohl; Laurie J. Hannigan; Philip S. Dale; Robert Plomin – npj Science of Learning, 2018
Little is known about the etiology of developmental change and continuity in educational achievement. Here, we study achievement from primary school to the end of compulsory education for 6000 twin pairs in the UK-representative Twins Early Development Study sample. Results showed that educational achievement is highly heritable across school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Twins, Genetics, Academic Achievement