It appears that educators often think of the capacity of individual children for academic learning in terms of intelligence test scores or other measures of individual attributes. The measures are thought to be relevant simply because they predict achievement. Actually one predicts different things for children under diverse circumstances and thus children can be thought of as having many different capacities.
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