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…

Screening of 288 youths entering the juvenile justice system revealed that approximately 18 percent were gifted in some way. Gifted Ss differed from normal youth by having high abilities in fluid intelligence yet performed less well on the achievement test in relation to these high fluid abilities. (CL)

Compared scores on the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for disadvantaged youngsters (N=120). Results suggested that professionals using the CMI should use caution when working with disadvantaged youngsters since there is such a strong relationship to intelligence, as measured by the WAIS. (JAC)

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 purpose of this document is to define mental retardation and answer questions related to this topic. According to the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR), mental retardation is a disability that occurs before age 18. It is characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors as expressed in…

Conceptual problems relating to the definition of social competency in young children are reviewed. Twenty nine competency statements are given, and implications for measurement, research, and policy relating to young children are also discussed. (CS)

The article takes issue with the proposition of Christopher Jenks that educational equality is not an answer to economic/social inequality. Questions relating environment to I.Q. are dealt with. (JB)

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…

Recent developments and future prospects in the borrowing of biological principles to build problem solving relationships between human intelligence and the information storage and manipulation capacities of computers. Twenty-one references. (LY)

Authors demonstrate that a simple algebraic analysis renders previous interpretations superfluous, making overlap" a tautology and not a hypothesis. (Authors/MB)

Environmental influences were important determiners of aptitude and ability as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in a twin study using black and white students. There were insufficient data to determine the relative contribution of environmental and genetic variance between races. (AL)