Fundamentals of Educational Measurement with the Elements of Statistical Method (Paperback)


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: ... psychology, was responsible for its creation, but it has since proved to be of value in mental diagnosis. Owing to the fact that Seguin believed defective children different from normal children in kind of mentality, he thought they would demand a different kind of test to measure their intelligence. He believed that general improvement could be brought about by training in specific tasks; that the mind could be divided into separate 'entities such as attention, will, memory, imagination, and the like, and that training in each of these gave a general training of the whole mind. The form board, which consists of a board usually about 14 by 20 inches in dimensions, has a number of irregularshaped apertures in it with a number of blocks that will fit the various apertures. Each block will fit but one aperture and the test consists in determining how quickly pupils will assemble the blocks into their appropriate apertures. Feeble-minded people have little sense of form and proportion, hence they must try many times before they can find the right blocks for the various apertures. A Scale of Performance Tests.--Pintner and Paterson have designed and assembled a group of tests with the idea of making a scale which will supplement the intelligence scales now in use. Their scale is the result of an attempt to measure the mentality of deaf children and had its beginning in 1914. Not only is it desirable to measure the mentality of deaf children, but there are many other types that cannot be measured by the ordinary intelligence scales. The speech defective, the backward child, the foreign child, and many types of subnormal children do not respond to these tests in such a way as to reveal their mentality. A battery of performance tests, therefore, was thought by th...

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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: ... psychology, was responsible for its creation, but it has since proved to be of value in mental diagnosis. Owing to the fact that Seguin believed defective children different from normal children in kind of mentality, he thought they would demand a different kind of test to measure their intelligence. He believed that general improvement could be brought about by training in specific tasks; that the mind could be divided into separate 'entities such as attention, will, memory, imagination, and the like, and that training in each of these gave a general training of the whole mind. The form board, which consists of a board usually about 14 by 20 inches in dimensions, has a number of irregularshaped apertures in it with a number of blocks that will fit the various apertures. Each block will fit but one aperture and the test consists in determining how quickly pupils will assemble the blocks into their appropriate apertures. Feeble-minded people have little sense of form and proportion, hence they must try many times before they can find the right blocks for the various apertures. A Scale of Performance Tests.--Pintner and Paterson have designed and assembled a group of tests with the idea of making a scale which will supplement the intelligence scales now in use. Their scale is the result of an attempt to measure the mentality of deaf children and had its beginning in 1914. Not only is it desirable to measure the mentality of deaf children, but there are many other types that cannot be measured by the ordinary intelligence scales. The speech defective, the backward child, the foreign child, and many types of subnormal children do not respond to these tests in such a way as to reveal their mentality. A battery of performance tests, therefore, was thought by th...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 2012

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First published

February 2012

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246 x 189 x 6mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

106

ISBN-13

978-1-150-10961-4

Barcode

9781150109614

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1-150-10961-0



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