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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jul 7 21:31:01 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by Concourse Express on Thu Jul 7 19:31:43 2011. Not surprising, but I must ask: is there correlation between a student's motivation and IQ? I ask because I find - both for students and for myself - that interest in or passion for a subject leads to one working harder and more diligently on said subject.I have read a study that showed that all motivation can be explained by IQ. I've read another that showed that other factors, like the ability to delay gratification, correlate better with grades than IQ (though this was in students at a gifted school where the range of IQ was restricted). The bottom line is that school (and work and life performance) depends not just on IQ but on personality traits, most importantly conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is correlated with IQ, and as the article I posted explains, what modern education is primarily doing is selecting for high-IQ, conscientious, non-neurotic students (although neuroticism is also correlated with IQ, positive effects of higher conscientiousness often outweighs it). |
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