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Seven Ways for Young Children to Be Smart
Early childhood professionals have always looked at the whole picture when considering children's intelligence. ...
Source: National Association for the Education of Young Children
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Two Ways of Knowing
Socrates, the founder of the inductive method (Watson, 1978), was a master at analytical reasoning. Plato, his student, ...
Source: Visual Spatial Resource Center
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Developmental Trends: Intelligence at Different Age Levels
Infancy (Birth–2)What You Might Observe: Success on test items that involve early developmental ...
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Measures of Intelligence
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, commissioned by the French government to devise a test that would differentiate ...
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IQ and School Achievement
Scores on intelligence tests were originally calculated using a formula that involves division. Hence, they were called ...
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Transition Points
IntroductionAs children progress through different grades in school they face different challenges. In addition to ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Testing - A More Complete Picture
Contrary to what you may have heard, tests are far from perfect measures of what your child has learned at school. At ...
Source: Utah Education Association
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Intellectual Development
The theory, research, and philosophy of development in the early childhood years provides a deeper understanding of ...
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Observation Guidelines: Recognizing Intrinsic Motivation in Children's Behaviors
InquisitivenessLook For: Eagerness to explore and learn Fascination with objects, other people, or both ...
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Are Children with ADHD as Intelligent and as Innovative as Their Peers?
When we look at measured IQ, individual children with ADHD fall across the full spectrum of IQ. However, research that ...
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Developing Metacognition
Metacognition is thinking about thinking, knowing "what we know" and "what we don't know." Just as ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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IQ Testing: What's it All About?
Your child breezes through books normally preferred by kids a few years older. She's a fast learner and the most common...
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Spatial Intelligence
People who are generally considered to have highly developed spatial intelligence include sailors, engineers, surgeons,...
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Academic Identities
Educators do well to recognize how youths’ identities relative to academics affect their beliefs and actions in school...
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Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
This is the ability to solve problems or fashion products using one's body. Highly developed bodily-kinesthetic...
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Intelligence
A final factor affecting learning is intelligence, or the inherent capability of the learner to understand and learn....
