Not exact matches
Despite decades of relying on standardized test
scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by
cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.
Despite the admonition of Edward L. Thorndike and others that IQ
scores primarily estimate current
cognitive functioning and not learning potential, in 1977 policymakers recommended using the
scores inappropriately, as they have ever since.
Despite their
cognitive impairments, the IQ
scores of schizophrenics are similar in range to those of the rest of the population.