A Fifty-Year Follow-up of Terman's Youngest College Students and IQ-Matched Agemates
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gifted Child Quarterly
- Vol. 31 (2) , 55-58
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001698628703100202
Abstract
The 19 youngest college students in Terman's classic longitudinal study were compared with others of the same approximate age and IQ on academic and career progress and psychosocial adjustment. The young college students earned higher grades, more academic honors, and participated in more extracurrcular activities. They graduated and entered the professions earlier, and were, in 1940, more often rated as "high achievers," although this qualitative difference had disappeared by 1960. No differences in psychosocial adjustment were discovered.Keywords
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