The performance of 101 educable mentally retarded children on four annual administrations of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was analyzed using J. Sattler's standard deviation method and his Bintegram. Few of the children showed strengths and weaknesses until the original criteria were relaxed, and even then there was little stability over…

This book contains 12 "nontraditional intelligence" tests, that are in part tests of cultural knowledge. The collection contains a test of articulation talent and linear "equility", four versions of an alternate test of intelligence, and seven versions of the "Wyoming Intelligence Test" (WIT), with some statistics about the validity of the WIT.…

The present report analyzed the scoring data from the original New York City Board of Education scoring guide (1941), and, in addition, a partial replication of the 1941 study is reported, as well as an analysis of scoring patterns among experienced and inexperienced examiners. Results indicate that examiners differ in their scoring of…

The feasibility of using the Revised Beta Examination for assessing the intellectual functioning level of indigent Negro adults is examined. Findings suggest that the Beta holds some promise. (Author)

In comparing individual intelligence tests with individual reading achievement tests, it was found that the readingtests surpass individual intelligence tests in ability to predict successful graduation from regular high school classes for low achieving students. (Author/KJ)

When 163 children identified as gifted by teachers were assessed on the Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children, it was found that teachers underrate and overrate the performance of children generally on the basis of academic attainment. More children were found as gifted in primary than secondary school. (CL)

Adaptations of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Revised Performance scales for 127 deaf children revealed insignificant differences compared to norms for hearing children. A significant variation was noted within the subtests of deaf subjects of hearing parents: weakness of picture arrangement and coding with relative strength in…

Proposes that a direct and authoritative challenge to the scientific racism of the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries was urgently needed, and was one of the leading rhetorical contributions of W.E.B. DuBois. Specifically examines three issues: social Darwinism, the eugenics movement, and psychologists' measurement of intelligence.…

Examines the life and career of Thelma Gwinn Thurstone. Discusses her career strategies and contributions to psychological testing, intelligence theory, and instruction. Bases article upon Thurstone's publications and a series of personal interviews. (Author/BH)