[CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Peer tutoring study

[Lesley Farmer]

Peer Tutoring Gets a Push Family dynamics, not biology, are behind the
IQ gap between firstborns and their younger siblings, according to a
study published by two Norwegian scientists. This study has
implications for educators because it proposes that firstborns spend
more time engaged in peer tutoring with their younger siblings and that
these teaching opportunities help solidify and extend the older
siblings' own knowledge. Researchers also determined that second-born
men with an older sibling who died in childhood had IQ scores that were
nearly as high, on average, as those of firstborn children.
Bjerkedal, T., et al. (2007). Intelligence test scores and birth order
among young Norwegian men (conscripts) analyzed within and between
families. Intelligence, 35(5), 503-514.


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Posted By Lesley Farmer to CSLA Research Update at 10/09/2007 02:42:00
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