An annotated bibliography dealing with the classification and instruction of pupils to provide for individual differences - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...different in the two groups of schools. Moreover, as has been stated in Chapter I, the writer's rather extensive visiting while the tests were being given and his examination of the test booklets after they had been scored afforded fairly reliable grounds for believing that there were no essential differences in the administration of the tests in the experimental and in the control schools. The use of the control schools as a check group upon the experimental schools. If we assume that the difference in the amount and degree of intelligence found by the use of the intelligence tests was reliable, the question remains as to whether this difference was so great that the control schools could not be used as a valid check upon the experimental schools. A definite answer to this question cannot be given. Such data as are available concerning the mentality of pupils of different school systems appear to show that an average difference of about seven months of mental age or nine points I. Q. is not unusual. Probably the most extensive data available upon this point are those obtained from the use of the Illinois General Intelligence Scale.8 This scale was given to the pupils of ten cities and nine counties in the autumn of 1920. It was found that the differences between the median mental ages of the various grades of the single cities and counties concerned and the general medians for the corresponding grades were four months or more in SO percent of the cases. The largest difference was one year and three months. In terms of the I. Q. SO 'Monroe, W. S. A Report of the Use of the Illinois Examination, Form 1, with 49,500 Pupils. Insert of School and Home Education, March, 1921. 8p. percent of the differences exceeded four points, the greatest being nineteen points...
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