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Environment, Social Class, and Mental Abilities

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Marjoribanks, Kevin


1973

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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Exploring Horizons

Excerpt:
"A new measure of the learning environment of the home was developed in order to examine the relationship between the environment of children and mental ability test performance. One hundred and eighty-five 11-year-old boys and their parents formed the sample. The environment measure accounted for a large percentage of the variance in verbal, number, and total ability scores and a moderate percentage of the variance in reasoning ability scores. For spatial ability the relationship with the environment was less definite. The environment measure accounted for more of the variance in the ability scores than did a set of social status indicators and family structure variables."

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