A new teacher education text stresses the primacy of urban problems. Also emphasized is a new direction in the training and recruitment of teachers for urban schools. Part I, "The Problem" contains chapters on urban and rural education, family structure and education, stupidity and ignorance, militancy and intelligence, and the teacher,…

To develop an assessment device for the evaluation of body image, to evaluate the body image of blind children, to make comparisons between subgroups (sex, age, IQ) and to derive sequences of tasks related to body image training, 91 children (mean age 10.06 years, mean IQ 88.32) were evaluated by a body image survey form. Analysis of the data…

Factors affecting measuring ability in machine shop practices at the high school level were investigated. A sample of 157 male students enrolled at four metropolitan high schools in Chicago was administered four tests devised specifically for this study (one each on measuring ability, numerical ability, mechanical knowledge, and kinesthetic…

Four papers examine theoretical and practical aspects of educational problems found in the northern regions of the world, the two major problems being that vast distances separate the small communities and that there are great differences between living patterns of native inhabitants and those patterns demanded by modern society. "The Role…

The issue of multiple-choice (MC) vs. created-response (CR) test-item formats was reexamined at the eighth-grade level in three subject areas: general science, American history, and arithmetic. In each subject area, alternate forms with the same item-content but differing in which items were in which format were prepared from standardized tests.…

Similarities among ethnolinguistic groups are greater than differences. It is the belief in the influence of culture and language on basic structures of thought and personality that divides groups, not the structures themselves. However, linguistic differences among ethnic groups are real. The linguistic distinctiveness of a particular ethnic…

This paper offers a preliminary analysis of the effects of a semi-segregated school system on the IQ's of its students. The basic data consist of IQ scores for fourth, sixth, and eighth grades and associated environmental data obtained from their school records. A statistical model is developed to analyze longitudinal data when both process error…

This project was designed to explore the relationship between school achievement and birth weight in a population of poverty black school children in the hope that the assumptions about environmental similarity might be approximated, and that the relatively advanced age of the subjects would allow examination of the lasting effects of birth…

This study examines the relationships between reading comprehension and listening comprehension among second graders with regard to age, reading ability, and intelligence. One form of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test was administered to 66 second graders to measure reading comprehension and a revised alternate form of the same test measured…

The study examined: (1) the effects of rural-urban background and social class on scholastic performance in college, and (2) the rural-urban differences in scholastic performance when controlled for social class, sex, and measured intelligence. Data originally collected by students' self-reports and administrative records for panel-designed…

Forty-eight special class educable mentally retarded (EMR) students, 9 to 12 years of age, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were examined to determine effects of communication training and learning potential (LP) training on tasks in the Communication Test Battery (CTB) and on scores in the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM). The Ss were…

An entire elementary school system with 60 percent white and 40 percent black children was given several ability tests administered by 12 white and eight black examiners. The tests measured verbal and nonverbal IQ, perceptual-motor cognitive development, "speed and persistence" under neutral and motivating instructions, listening attention, and…

The purpose of this study was to determine if selected mental, mathematical, reading, and personality assessments of sixth-grade pupils could predict high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving. The subjects were 112 sixth graders, 56 classified as high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving and 56 classified as low achievers…

The study was based on a year's work with Crow Indian children, grades 1-4, at Pryor, Montana. Five tests were given and evaluated: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, the Gesell Developmental Examination, the Lowenfeld Mosaic, and 3 selected tasks from Piaget. The 21 pupils used for this study were broken…

This study was undertaken to investigate approaches fifth grade children of similar mental ability follow when writing narrative compositions, to identify procedures unique to good and poor writers, and to observe sex differences relative to quality of written expression and ability to verbalize concerning the writing process. A sample of 230…