Tall, heavy children with good lung capacity are further along toward mental maturity as evidenced by school progress, based on 21,682 final term grades¶
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q2 i? Tall, heavy boys and girls with good lung capacity are older physiologically and further along in stages toward mental maturity, as evidenced by school progress, than short, light children. → Bird T. Baldwin 1922
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Bird T. Baldwin 1922¶
Bird T. Baldwin. (1922). The Relation Between Mental and Physical Growth. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. XIII, No. 1. https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/13/1/193
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Analysis of school grades and physical measurements from two schools, treating pedagogical age as an equivalent of mental development. The author states the conclusion "is based on 21,682 final term grades and 5000 physical measurements on 125 boys and girls."
"This conclusion is based on 21,682 final term grades and 5000 physical measurements on 125 boys and girls from the Horace Mann School at Teachers College, Columbia, University, and The Francis Parker School in Chicago."
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Related Claims¶
- Physiologically accelerated children are mentally accelerated: height correlates with mental age +0.53 for 49 girls with age held constant — related
- When body size at fourteen and period of rapid growth are considered, heavy or tall early developers rank better in scholarship than late developers, and light late developers rank better than light early or medium developers — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- When individual growth-increment curves are correlated with scholarship without reference to body size or stage of development, no decided relation between scholarship and physical growth appears — related
- Physiological age, as evidenced by the advent of pubescence or first menstruation, shows wide variations and low correlations with other traits — reports the opposite
- Anatomical development measured by wrist-bone radiographs correlates very highly with height and weight in the Baldwin study — related
- Most high-school students made rapid or normal elementary progress, yet most fail in some high-school work, and schools appear better fitted for girls than for boys — related
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Tall, heavy children with good lung capacity are further along toward mental maturity as evidenced by school progress, based on 21,682 final term grades |
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Tall, heavy children with good lung capacity are further along toward mental maturity as evidenced by school progress, based on 21,682 final term grades |
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