Children with mental disabilities -- Education; Children with mental disabilities -- Psychological testing
Drawing of diamond. VI. 3.
Rectangular card and divided rectangle. V. 5 and Adult, 2.
Colours. VII. 5.
Cards with mixed sentences. XII. 5.
Square of paper. Adult, 1.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] The directions for this test, given in 1908, are to arrange the
two triangles so that the _hypotenuses are as far distant as possible
from one another_. In the 1911 article the directions are as above. It
seems to the writer that both directions are ambiguous. In certain
experiments in which she followed the 1908 directions she placed the
triangles thus [Illustration: oblique triangle point up, oblique
triangle point down], so that the children had to lift one across the
other to effect a solution. A very small percentage of five-year-old
children succeeded. If the triangles are placed thus [Illustration:
oblique triangle point up, oblique triangle long side down] the task
would probably be easier.
[B] See _Journal of Educational Psychology_, 1912: "A Tentative
Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Measuring Scale of
Intelligence," by Terman and Child. For an excellent brief review of
the experimental work which has been done with the tests, see the same
volume, pp. 101-110. The 1911 scale, with detailed instructions for
the application of each test, appeared in the _Bulletin de la Société
Libre pour l'Étude Psychologique de l'Enfant_, Nos. 70 and 71, April,
1911. This article has been translated by Clara Harrison Town
(_Chicago Medical Press_). See also Meumann, _Vorlesungen Z.
Einführung in die experimentelle Pädagogik_, Leipzig, 1913.
DIAGRAMS
For the picture tests Binet used the following:
Fig. 1. Man and boy pulling a barrow with furniture.
Fig. 2. A poor old man and a young woman sitting on a seat outside on
a wintry day.
Fig. 3. A prisoner standing on his bed to look out of the window of
his cell.
The student should choose pictures which contain familiar figures and
objects, and which "tell a story" capable of sympathetic
interpretation. They should not be too childish.
The following pictures, all in the Tate Gallery, may be suggested:
The Doctor, by Luke Fildes.
The Blind Beggar, by J.L. Dyckmans.
The Wedding, by Stanhope A. Forbes.
A Hopeless Dawn, by Frank Bramley.
The Man with the Scythe, by H.H. La Thangue.
Mark the pictures chosen Figs. 1, 2, and 3.
[Illustration: FIG. 4.]
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INDEX
Abnormal children, 5
Abnormality, frontiers of, 92
Adenoids, 110
Alcohol, 102
Appendix, 146
Aptitudes, 23 _et seq._
Arithmetic, 58
Asylum cases, 74
Attendance, irregular, 50
Bicêtre, 6, 123
Bromides, 106
Cretin, 104
Curriculum, 14, 26, 32, 131
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