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The Effects of Familiarization on the Verbal Intelligence Test Performance of Socially Disadvantaged Youth. Final Report.
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Gillooly, William B.; Thomas, Charles L. – 1970
An experiment employing a 2x2x3 factorial design sought to determine the extent to which socially disadvantaged elementary school students' unfamiliarity with some terms in a verbal subsection of a group intelligence test may account for their relatively poor performance on such tests. Training was provided so as to attempt improvement in these…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Group Testing