June 29
Intelligence & Academic Achievement
Review for TEST 1
Example study on conceptual development
round earth?
Intelligence
What is it?
theories
single trait ~
abilities ~
Psychological Constructs
what are they -
How do we measure intelligence?
What
does it predict?
What factors effect it?
important concepts: distributions and variance
Academic Skills
reading
four stages ~
strategies
reading comprehension
mental models ~
comprehension monitoring ~
mathematics
strategies ~
meta-comprehension ~
undertanding
procedural learning vs. learning for understanding
REVIEW FOR TEST 1