How much does schooling influence general intelligence and its cognitive components? A reassessment of the evidence.

• DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.27.5.703
• Publication Date: 2005-09-21T16:13:18Z
• Authors: Stephen J. Ceci

This is a review of the relationship between schooling, IQ, and cognitive processes presumed to underpin IQ. The data suggest that much causal pathway IQ schooling points in direction importance quantity one attains (highest grade successfully completed). Schooling fosters development performance on most tests. In western nations, conveys this influence cognition through practices appear unrelated systematic variation quality schools. If correct, could have implications for meaning attaches screening prediction as well efforts changes