ABSTRACT
This part of the book focuses on learning and education. The present chapter embarks on the issue of learning and examines relations between various aspects of developing mind and personality, and education. Research shows that cognitive ability and school performance are highly related. On the one hand, schooling influences cognitive ability and development substantially. Each extra year of schooling boosts intelligence by about 2 IQ points or a good part of a developmental cycle. On the other hand, cognitive ability predicts school achievement highly, although this relation varies with age, increasing with school grade. It is also shown that several personality aspects—being organized and having self-control—are also very important in predicting success in school. Cognitive self-concept only weakly predicts school achievement, although its contribution to school success increases with age.
