05:300:320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heredity, Joseph Renzulli, Family Values
26 Apr 2018
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Intellectual meritocracy - intellectual virtues take precedence over heredity or social status. Leta hollingworth: 1922, with columbia/teachers college teachers - designed strategies to identify and teach gifted students in new york city, 1936, speyer school studies - compared students who scored 150+ on stanford binet with students in 75-90 range. In 1939 hollingworth found that 140+ iq students wasted half of their time in school and 170+ students wasted almost all of their time: still true today. Identification was difficult due to funding and negative attitudes federal government"s role in gifted education is virtually non-existent : all remain true today. Intelligence: 1850s, sir francis galton (english) made attempts to measure intelligence. Terman tracked their physical, psychological, social, and professional progress from 1922-1972: sample included larger number of children with jewish descent, few. African americans, hispanic origins: findings, those allowed to accelerate were more successful in the long-term.
