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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Effects of Heredity and Environment on Intelligence
It is often difficult to separate the relative influences of heredity and environment on human characteristics. People...
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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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A Description of IQ Ranges
Extremely Low Range Children who score in the extremely low range are in the bottom 2 percent of the population....
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
