Examining the Potential for Academic Achievement among Inuit Children
A longitudinal design was used to examine intellectual potential and development of analytic intelligence among Inuit children in Arctic Quebec. Children completed the board form of the Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) on four occasions during the first two years of formal education. Inuit childr...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0022022196276006 2024-09-30T14:31:04+00:00 Examining the Potential for Academic Achievement among Inuit Children Comparisons on the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices Wright, Stephen C. Taylor, Donald M. Ruggiero, Karen M. 1996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022196276006 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022022196276006 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology volume 27, issue 6, page 733-753 ISSN 0022-0221 1552-5422 journal-article 1996 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022196276006 2024-09-10T04:23:03Z A longitudinal design was used to examine intellectual potential and development of analytic intelligence among Inuit children in Arctic Quebec. Children completed the board form of the Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) on four occasions during the first two years of formal education. Inuit children's CPM scores were consistently higher than age-appropriate U.S. norms and were comparable with data for White children in southern Quebec. In addition, the scores of children with two Inuit parents did not differ significantly from those of children with mixed Inuit/White heritage. Finally, language of instruction and teacher's ethnicity did not affect scores. In terms of the capacities measured by the CPM, Inuit children do not appear to be deficient in intellectual capacity at the time of entry into school. The factors that contribute to their academic under-achievement appear to do so by preventing the learning of specific classroom materials rather than affecting their intellectual development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic inuit SAGE Publications Arctic Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 27 6 733 753 |
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A longitudinal design was used to examine intellectual potential and development of analytic intelligence among Inuit children in Arctic Quebec. Children completed the board form of the Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) on four occasions during the first two years of formal education. Inuit children's CPM scores were consistently higher than age-appropriate U.S. norms and were comparable with data for White children in southern Quebec. In addition, the scores of children with two Inuit parents did not differ significantly from those of children with mixed Inuit/White heritage. Finally, language of instruction and teacher's ethnicity did not affect scores. In terms of the capacities measured by the CPM, Inuit children do not appear to be deficient in intellectual capacity at the time of entry into school. The factors that contribute to their academic under-achievement appear to do so by preventing the learning of specific classroom materials rather than affecting their intellectual development. |
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Examining the Potential for Academic Achievement among Inuit Children |
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Examining the Potential for Academic Achievement among Inuit Children |
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