Traces history of intelligence testing through social functions and educational psychology, then recommends changes in intelligence testing to overcome current problems. (DW)

An intelligence test was administered twice to 42 black preschool children by both black and white female examiners. Results showed that the children earned higher mean scores when tested by the black examiner; the effect was significant for the Verbal, Performance, and Full-Scale IQs. (SDH)

Arab and Jewish children living in a city in northern Israel were matched as closely as possible for school grade, age and SES, and tested on the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence. Results indicated little if any difference between Jewish and Arab children in level or pattern of the intellectual abilities as elicited by the WPPSI…

FOUR COMMONLY USED INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS ARE DESCRIBED. DESCRIPTIONS OF SUBTESTS ARE GIVEN, ALONG WITH EXPLANATION OF WHAT EACH TEST MEASURES. THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED TO ASSIST THE TEACHER IN IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC ABILITIES AND WEAKNESSES IN INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN. (JW)

A large battery of various tests of intelligence, scholastic achievement, and short-term memory was administered to some 2,000 white, black, and Mexican American pupils in grades 4, 5, and 6 in a largely agricultural school district in the central valley of California; the 3 grades were used as separate replications. Factor analysis with oblique…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between gain on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (S-B) in compensatory prekindergarten programs, and scores on the New York State Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP), Reading Section, over three years later. Four hundred and five subjects showed a correlation of 0.42 for the pre-post S-B…

Discrepancy scores (Verbal IQ minus Performance IQ) were examined for the WISC-R, using the standardization sample as the data source. The occurrence of significant discrepancy scores was found not to be significantly related to age, sex, or race, although significant relationships were obtained with both parental occupation and intelligence…

When teachers' ratings of first- through tenth-graders (N=160) on the Gifted Student Screening Scale (GSSS) were compared with students' scores on various intelligence tests, the GSSS identified 35 of 37 previously-identified cognitively-gifted students, with 59 students (not previously identified as gifted) identified for further screening for…

Discuss seven basic intellectual competencies possessed by all human beings: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Because I.Q. tests can measure only the first two qualities, this interview suggests evaluating schools by quality of educational experiences and students by project…

Four points are made in regard to the controversial reaction times studies: (1) apparatus used is not the best; (2) practice effects have not been thoroughly accounted for; (3) there is some evidence that simple reactions are different from choice ones; and (4) basic data to be explained are those which show substantial group differences.…

Tracing the development of the Otis test series, the author argues that there will be a continuing demand for group-administered general mental ability tests in education. He foresees a need for better ways of relating ability test scores with skills and achievements to make them more educationally useful. (Author/JAZ)

Standardized intelligence quotient tests should be supplemented and/or replaced by new tests that (1) emphasize the consequentiality of test material and speed selection rather than speed, (2) minimize demands on prior knowledge and test anxiety, and (3) measure intelligence according to three general classes: problem-solving ability, verbal…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate, in a middle-class sample of children, the relationship between intelligence and family size in order to ascertain, within the upper SES groups, the relationship between family size and a child's performance on an intelligence test. (Author/RK)