Titlebook: Educational Achievement in Japan; Richard Lynn Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988 education.Eur

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The Intelligence of Japanese Children,hildren may be due to superior intelligence. The term intelligence is used in the sense of an individual’s general learning and problem solving abilities. It is generally considered that these abilities are acquired through both inherited and environmental determinants and are adequately measured by

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Motivation and Incentives for Educational Achievement in Japan and the West,ished by Parkerson, Schiller, Lomax and Walberg (1984), in which they found a median correlation of 0.34 between motivation and educational achievement. The possible contribution of motivation in the educational standards of Japanese school children is the subject of this chapter.

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The Intrinsic Motivation of Japanese School Children,ong in Japanese school children because the external incentives which generate this form of motivation are themselves so powerful. In the present chapter we turn to intrinsic motivation, the motivation to work well in order to satisfy some internal value, standard or need.

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The Contribution of Teachers and Schools to Educational Achievement,r schools. It is to the significance of this input into educational achievement in Japan that we now turn. Few will doubt that an important contribution to children’s educational achievement lies in their teachers’ professionalism, their dedication to learning, their enthusiasm, professional skills

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Constructing New Notions of Publicnessies. It is generally considered that these abilities are acquired through both inherited and environmental determinants and are adequately measured by intelligence tests (see, for example, Eysenck, 1979; Vernon, 1979; Jensen, 1980).

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The Japanese School System,ending kindergarten have risen steadily since the end of the Second World War. By 1980 approximately 85 per cent of pre-school children attended kindergarten nationally, and in Tokyo and other large cities the figure was over 90 per cent. In Britian and the USA about 40 per cent of 4-year-olds attend kindergarten.

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The Intelligence of Japanese Children,ies. It is generally considered that these abilities are acquired through both inherited and environmental determinants and are adequately measured by intelligence tests (see, for example, Eysenck, 1979; Vernon, 1979; Jensen, 1980).