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IMPROVING TEST SCORES

Students Who Write About Their Test Anxiety May Improve Scores

With the understanding that students with anxiety about upcoming exams often perform poorly on them, researchers intervened with an exercise that permitted a randomized group of students to write about their concerns before taking an exam.  Result:  the students improved their performance and scores.   

“Writing About Testing Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom”. Gerardo Ramirez, Sian L. Beilock.  Science, January 14, 2011, 211-213.

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CAN GESTURES HELP CHILDREN LEARN?

Researchers at SF State have found that young children who use gestures solve problems well in certain instances.

In the study, children from two-and-a-half to five years of age were asked to sort cards by color and shape. Children who used gestures performed better than those who did not or those who gestured less. Gestures included hand movements that demonstrated card images, like rabbits.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130726191735.htm 


EFFECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON IQ

Researchers Christiane Capron and Michel Duyme compared IQ scores of adopted children raised by parents with high socio-economic status (SES) and parents with low SES, and found that the children raised by parents with high SES had higher IQ scores and the children raised by parents with low SES had lower IQ scores.  In addition, children of biological parents with high SES scored higher than children of biological parents with low SES.

The abstract is available for free, but the full study may incur a fee.
http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989Natur.340..552C