Only one in twenty of today's teens got a top score in mathematical ability, compared to one in five in 1976. In abstract thinking measures, it was one in ten compared to one in four in 1976.
Professor Michael Slayer, who performed the study, had previously found that eleven-year-olds were three years behind those in 1976 in cognitive abilities.
This study appeared in the British Journal of Educational Psychology.
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