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Trevor E. Sewell
Researcher at Temple University
Publications - 23
Citations - 284
Trevor E. Sewell is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Intelligence quotient. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications receiving 283 citations.
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Growth and Academic Achievement in Inner-City Kindergarten Children The Relationship of Height, Weight, Cognitive Ability, and Neurodevelopmental Level
TL;DR: Regression analyses revealed that general cognitive ability contributed more variance to predictions of achievement than all other variables, including weight for age and VMI, and children with reduced somatic growth were likely to do poorly in school, but the data do not show that undernutrition causes learning failure.
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High School Dropout: Psychological, Academic, and Vocational Factors.
TL;DR: The correlates and presumable causes for dropping out: The phenomenon is more complex than might have been expected as mentioned in this paper, and there are several hypotheses about the causes of dropping out, including:
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Learning Ability and Intelligence as Cognitive Predictors of Achievement in First-Grade Black Children.
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Intelligence and learning tasks as predictors of scholastic achievement in black and white first-grade children
TL;DR: In this paper, the predictive effectiveness of intelligence tests and learning tasks was examined for black and white subjects, focusing on the relative merits of learning tasks in contrast to traditional IQ tests in predicting scholastic achievement.