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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Intelligence Testing and the Nature/Nurture Debate, 1928-1978: What Next?
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Vernon, P. E. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Changing ideas on intelligence testing and the heritability of intelligence are followed through a fifty-year period. Common criticisms of intelligence tests are examined, but it is concluded that intellectual tests will continue to be of value in diagnosing strengths and weaknesses, particularly of exceptional children. (Editor)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Historical Reviews, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests