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Intelligence Testing and Comprehensive Education

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Genetic and Environmental Factors in Human Ability

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This paper is primarily concerned with the impact that intelligence testing has had, and is possibly still having, on the development of the education system in this country. The view is taken that the future social and economic advancement of any society depends overwhelmingly upon the investment it is prepared to make in human capital, or in other words, upon what resources it is prepared to put into and what structure it is prepared to impose upon its education system. What proportion of its total income a country is prepared to invest in its education system is, of course, an important issue but one which lies outside the scope of this paper. Within the limitations imposed by the resources available, however, different structures are possible and it is necessary first to consider what these might be.

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  1. National Foundation for Educational Research, UK

    Douglas Pidgeon

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    J. E. Meade (Professor of Political Economy) & A. S. Parkes (Mary Marshal Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction) (Professor of Political Economy) &  (Mary Marshal Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction)

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Pidgeon, D. (1966). Intelligence Testing and Comprehensive Education. In: Meade, J.E., Parkes, A.S. (eds) Genetic and Environmental Factors in Human Ability. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6499-1_4

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