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Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Law and Education Center. – 1980
To help public schools minimize litigation, this newsletter recommends constitutional and legal training for public school officials and examines relevant court cases involving school official liability, intelligence tests, and religion in the schools. According to the authors, the Maine v. Thiboutot and Owen v. City of Independence cases…
Descriptors: Administrators, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Blum, Jeffrey M. – 1978
Pseudoscience, or the process of persuasion by establishing a pretense of scientific discovery, is examined in this book in an effort to dispel false notions about the validity of various measures of intelligence and the correlations of genetics to mental ability. The history and development of concepts related to hereditary intelligence and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Research, Environmental Influences, Ethnic Groups
Smith, Susan G. – 1977
Recent legal decisions, coupled with Federal and State statutes, require the New York City Board of Education to follow definite guidelines in providing equal educational opportunities for its handicapped children. Among the problems raised are those of classification and labeling, criticized by some as a procedure that focuses more on pathology…
Descriptors: Classification, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Download full textBERGER, STANLEY I.
THE PURPOSES OF THIS PILOT PROJECT WERE (1) TO ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF THE LOCAL PROGRAM ON BOTH INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND THE GROUP AND (2) TO INVESTIGATE THE SENSITIVITY OF THE TEST INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN EVALUATING SUCH A PROGRAM. SIXTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE ENROLLED IN THE LOCAL HEADSTART PROGRAM AND WERE ADMINISTERED THE STANFORD-BINET,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Disadvantaged, Early Experience, Evaluation Methods
Goodrich, Robert L. – 1978
Stochastic difference equations of the Box-Jenkins form provide an adequate family of models on which to base the stochastic theory of human growth processes, but conventional time series identification methods do not apply to available data sets. A method to identify structure and parameters of stochastic difference equation models of human…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Measurement, Day Care, Intellectual Development
Wiener, Florence D.; And Others – 1978
The Spanish Picture Vocabulary Test was designed to provide a Spanish-language translation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test which would be suitable for Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican school-children in New York City. The 300 stimulus words were translated according to a consensus of linguists and persons of Puerto Rican descent, and were…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Tests
Gardner, Riley W.; Moriarty, Alice – 1968
Personality development and structure formation were studied in 60 preadolescent children (aged 9 to 13). Six major aspects of preadolescent individuality were assessed: cognitive controls, performance on the Holtzman Inkblot Test, intellectual abilities, general response to clinical testing, general response to laboratory testing, and defense…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Jones, Phillip E., Ed. – 1978
A historical perspective on several issues related to the development of equal opportunity in higher education is presented in these speeches. Six authors address the following issues: (1) the black college in historical perspective (Stephen Wright); (2) the development of equal opportunity in relation to historical patterns in higher education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Achievement Tests, Black Education, Black Students
McDonnell, W. – 1975
The problems associated with the transition from the secondary level to the tertiary level in education have given rise to many surveys, analyses of statistics, research projects, reports and literature reviews. Much has been written on topics such as testing, selection, prediction and wastage, with findings and conclusions which appear to have…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affective Measures, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability
Dougherty, Larry W.; And Others – 1975
The Public Schools of Brookline, Massachusetts are operating a pilot program to assist families during the first five years of a child's life. The multidisciplinary program, entitled the Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP), aims to help each child obtain optimal physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. The program begins at…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education
McNiel, Nathaniel Dewey – 1975
The purpose of the study was to compare the performances of black and white urban high school students on a conventional measure of intelligence, the Lorge Thorndike vocabulary test and a culture specific test, the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity. In addition to determining whether or not there were race differences in performance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students
PDF pending restorationSchnee, Ronald G. – Journal of Research and Evaluation of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1974
Metropolitan Achievement Tests (MAT) and Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Tests were administered to elementary school students of the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Results of the testing are presented in tables and consist of: elementary school test results as compared to the national means in reading, language, and mathematics; a comparison of scores…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Gartner, Alan; Riessman, Frank – 1973
Once again intelligence tests are being used as the major basis to establish the genetically determined limitations of minority and economically disadvantaged groups. By reviewing the arguments regarding the I.Q. test and the hereditability of intelligence, the author compares these with two sets of phenomena: the I.Q. test scores and the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences
Durost, Walter N. – 1971
The New Hampshire statewide testing program was implemented to provide a data base for the evaluation of the effectiveness of Title I projects as required by Federal law. To accomplish this objective, achievement and intelligence tests were administered to children in Title I projects and regular programs in four elementary grades--2, 4, 6 and 8.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education
Goldberger, Arthur S. – 1974
In his book, "I.Q. in the Meritocracy," Richard J. Herrnstein (1973) calls on a classic article by Barbara S. Burks (1928) to support his position that a large part of the variation in intelligence can be accounted for by variation in heredity, as distinguished from variation in environment, and from covariation of heredity and…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Environmental Influences, Family Influence
