Housing Trajectories Across the Urban Hierarchy: Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2001–2005

Spearman's Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR) with regard to age was tested in two different databases from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The first database consisted of 6,980 boys and girls aged 12–16 from the 1997 cohort ( NLSY 1997 ). The subjects were tested with a computer-administered adaptive format (CAT) of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) consisting of 12 subtests. The second database consisted of 11,448 male and female subjects aged 15–24 from the 1979 cohort ( NLSY 1979 ). These subjects were tested with the older 10-subtest version of the ASVAB. The hypothesis was tested by dividing the sample into Young and Old age groups while keeping IQ fairly constant by a method similar to the one developed and employed by Deary et al. (1996) . The different age groups were subsequently factor-analyzed separately. The eigenvalue of the first principal component (PC1) and the first principal axis factor (PAF1), and the average intercorrelation of the subtests were used as estimates of the g saturation and compared across groups. There were no significant differences in the g saturation across age groups for any of the two samples, thereby pointing to no support for this aspect of Spearman's “Law of Diminishing Returns.”

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Effect of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy on Offspring's Cognitive Ability: Empirical Evidence for Complete Confounding in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Yearbook of Pediatrics ◽

10.1016/s0084-3954(08)70319-1 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008 ◽

pp. 75-77

Author(s):

J.A. Stockman

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Maternal Smoking ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Smoking During Pregnancy ◽

The Us ◽

Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy

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Entrepreneurial Mindset

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.03.312 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nusa FAIN ◽

Michel ROD ◽

Erik BOHEMIA

Keyword(s):

Influencing Factors ◽

Future Study ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Initial Study ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Teaching Approaches ◽

Approaches To Teaching ◽

Design Students ◽

Commerce Students ◽

Case Based

This paper explores the influence of teaching approaches on entrepreneurial mindset of commerce, design and engineering students across 3 universities. The research presented in this paper is an initial study within a larger project looking into building ‘entrepreneurial mindsets’ of students, and how this might be influenced by their disciplinary studies. The longitudinal survey will measure the entrepreneurial mindset of students at the start of a course and at the end. Three different approaches to teaching the courses were employed – lecture and case based, blended online and class based and fully project-based course. The entrepreneurial mindset growth was surprisingly strongest within the engineering cohort, but was closely followed by the commerce students, whereas the design students were slightly more conservative in their assessments. Future study will focus on establishing what other influencing factors beyond the teaching approaches may relate to the observed change.

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