Intelligence and educational achievement
@article{Deary2007IntelligenceAE, title={Intelligence and educational achievement}, author={I. Deary and S. Strand and P. Smith and C. Fernandes}, journal={Intelligence}, year={2007}, volume={35}, pages={13-21} }
This 5-year prospective longitudinal study of 70,000+ English children examined the association between psychometric intelligence at age 11 years and educational achievement in national examinations in 25 academic subjects at age 16. The correlation between a latent intelligence trait (Spearman's g from CAT2E) and a latent trait of educational achievement (GCSE scores) was 0.81. General intelligence contributed to success on all 25 subjects. Variance accounted for ranged from 58.6% in… CONTINUE READING
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