ERIC Number: ED020846
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1968-Apr
Pages: 39
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ASSESSMENT OF RURAL MEXICAN-AMERICAN PUPILS, PRESCHOOL AND GRADES ONE THROUGH TWELVE, WASCO, CALIFORNIA.
CUMMINS, EMERY J.; PALOMARES, UVALDO H.
MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FROM 13 GRADE LEVELS WITHIN THE WASCO, CALIFORNIA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE TESTED IN MARCH, 1967, AS PART OF AN EVALUATION OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF RURAL MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA. ANALYSIS OF TEST RESULTS REVEALED THAT MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FELL PROGRESSIVELY BEHIND IN PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT--A DEFICIT ATTRIBUTED TO BOTH HOME AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS. LOW SELF-CONCEPT SCORES AND ABOVE-NORMAL SOCIAL MATURITY SCORES MAY HAVE REFLECTED THE DEMANDS OF 2 CULTURES ON THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT PROGRESSIVELY DECLINED, POSSIBLY AS A RESULT OF THE DE-EMPHASIZING OF INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION AND THE ABSTRACTION DEMANDS MADE ON MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS BY MATERIALS GEARED TO MIDDLE-CLASS NORMS. TABLES SHOW WHICH TESTS WERE GIVEN TO WHICH GRADE LEVELS, AGE-GRADE RELATIONSHIPS, AND RESULTS BY INDIVIDUAL TEST. RELATED DOCUMENTS ARE RC 002 539 AND RC 001 775. (JEH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Methods, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Intelligence Tests, Kindergarten Children, Maturity (Individuals), Maturity Tests, Measurement, Mexican Americans, Perception Tests, Perceptual Motor Learning, Personality Measures, Preschool Children, Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Areas, Secondary Education, Testing
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Authoring Institution: California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento.
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