Are Headstart gains on the g factor? A meta-analysis

Intelligence

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 209-215

  te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a   Jongeneel Grimen, Birthe ^b   Kirkegaard, Emil O W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compensatory education; Headstart; Intelligence; Jensen effect; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905406180     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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