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Title: How Might Genetic Influences on Academic Achievement Masquerade as Environmental Influences?
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne Crane, Jonathan Duncan, Greg J. Klebanov, Pamela Kato Phillips, Meredith |
How Might Genetic Influences on Academic Achievement Masquerade as Environmental Influences? Smart Library on Children and Families, 2003. Also: http://www.children.smartlibrary.org/NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=2606 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Qontent Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; Family Background and Culture; Family Environment; Family Income; Genetics; I.Q.; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Background; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article reports on Phillips et al.'s study of the effects of families on black and white children's test scores. This abstract comes from the article's description of the researchers' methodology: "Part of the problem in determining "how much" of the black-white achievement gap results from heredity versus environment is that a person's genes and environment influence each other in complicated ways. It is often difficult to tell what part of a person's situation is influenced by their genetic makeup and what part is shaped by their environment." "Phillips and her colleagues sought to determine the relative importance of a wide range of family characteristics for children's vocabulary test scores. They did this by running statistical models in which they would factor in different influences and examine how the included variables changed the differences in black and white children's test scores." |
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Jonathan Crane, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela Kato Klebanov and Meredith Phillips. "How Might Genetic Influences on Academic Achievement Masquerade as Environmental Influences?" Smart Library on Children and Families, 2003. |