What makes a person "smart?" What is it about us that enables us to learn new skills and ideas? Is intelligence something that we are born with, or something that we can develop? This section will address the many definitions of intelligence and what it means for your child.
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Where Does Intelligence Come From?
Children's intelligence can be influenced at birth by heredity (genes), prenatal toxins (such as a mother consuming...
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The Role of Affect in Learning
After spending a decade researching the attributes of influential and motivating literacy teachers, Robert Ruddell...
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Multiple Intelligences
A number of researchers in educational psychology have come to defend the concept of multiple intelligences as opposed...
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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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Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner concedes that a general factor may very well exist in intelligence, but he questions its usefulness in...
