Special talents and defects : $b Their significance for educationHollingworth, Leta Stetter
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Special talents and defects : $b Their significance for education
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
Educational psychology; Educational tests and measurements; Exceptional children
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The correlation between representative drawing and verbal description is
practically zero. From knowledge of ability in one of these functions,
among high school students, no inference can be made concerning the
other. Ability in diagramming (a kind of analytical drawing) is also not
correlated with representative drawing. On the other hand, the processes
of diagramming and description exhibit a slight tendency to positive
coherence, as do description and retention. Analytical drawing and
retention have a decided tendency to cohere, with a coefficient of .433.
In order to check his finding that school marks in drawing correlate
well with school marks in other subjects, Ayer correlated the scores of
these 51 high school pupils in _representative drawing_, with their
school marks and found an absence of relationship. “Ability in
representative drawing is not correlated with achievement in school
subjects, when it is isolated from the other factors of school drawing.”
Ayer concludes that different kinds of drawing are differently
correlated with general intelligence, and that it is necessary to
isolate the various kinds in determining the relationship. Analytical
drawing is a better indication of a pupil’s general grasp of subject
matter than is representative drawing. He recommends “that the device of
representative drawing shall be supplanted in laboratory teaching,”
since it appears to be a highly specialized function.
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