Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

• 8.1 - History of IQ Testing
  This is a 44-minute lecture about the history of IQ testing. It is divided into 3-minute segments which can be watched individually as well.

• 8.2 - Dynamic Assessment
  This video describes an approach that is different from standardized testing to assess a child's ability to learn.

• 8.3 - Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
  Four short video clips on the site “Concept to Classroom” demonstrate the application of the theory of multiple intelligences.

• 8.4 - Intellectual Disability
  “What is Mental Retardation?” discusses causes and diagnostic criteria for mental retardation as defined in the DSM-IV-TR.

• 8.5 - Learning Disabilities
  This video shows an expert discussing learning disabilities and how to help children who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities.

• 8.6 - Gifted Children
  The story of a number of highly intellectually gifted children ina speical school for the gifted.

• 8.7 - Head Start
  Here is a video about the Head Start program.

• 8.8 - Rafe Esquith
  Rafe Esquith is the only teacher to win the Presidential Medal of Honor. In this video he is being interviewed about measurement and the ways in which schools measure children's success.

• 8.10 - Girls Discuss Science Classes
  Some young women in Britain discuss the problems that arise in their physics classes, as well discussing single sex classrooms.

Video Links

• Discovering Psychology: Testing and Intelligence

• Intelecom: Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence
  Dr. Robert Sternberg and others discuss the interaction of genes and environment in the nature of intelligence.

• Multiple Intelligences: The First 25 years with Howard Gardner
  Professor Howard Gardner reflects on the 25 years since he proposed his theory of multiple intelligences.

• Howard Gardner of The Multiple Intelligence Theory  
  Dr. Gardner explains his multiple intelligence theory on Edutopia.org

• Early Literacy
  Reading Rockets has a series of 30 minute videos on the development of early literacy. Each program is broken down into shorter segments that can stand alone.

• A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas at TEDxUFM

• Taking Action for Children: Early Interventions to Prevent Abuse and Prepare for School Success
  A panel discussion on school-readiness policies and programs.

• What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
  The panel of experts debate creativity.

• Stereotype Threat
  Dr. Claude Steele and others discuss the concept of stereotype threat.

• Women, Math and Stereotype Threat
  Two professors from Chicago discuss their research on stereotype threat and its implications.

• Lowering Dropout Rates Where Support Systems are Lacking (6:39)
  PBS Newshour (2013) takes us inside the Chicago public high schools, were a non-profit educational organization, OneGoal, is working to target low income students and lower dropout rates.

• Taking on Poverty in Salinas (2:57)
  Brief video covers poverty in California among Hispanic children, with the aim of awareness. Highlights the importance of education.

Audio Links

• NPR: Seattle Offers Lessons in Bridging Achievement Gap
  Discusses a program in Seattle, WA that is trying to bridge the achievement gap in their public schools between low-income and minority students and white more affluent students.

• NPR: Study Links Birth Order, Test Results
  Discussion of a new study that finds that boys who are the eldest siblings in their families scored higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers.