The accomplishment ratio : $b A treatment of the inherited determinants of disparity in school product — John Shaqi
The accomplishment ratio : $b A treatment of the inherited determinants of disparity in school productFranzen, Raymond
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The accomplishment ratio : $b A treatment of the inherited determinants of disparity in school product
Franzen, Raymond
Ability -- Testing; Educational psychology; Educational tests and measurements
IV. Call each derived age a Subject Age (SA). Divide each
subject age by the chronological age of the child. This will
yield what may be called a Subject Quotient (SQ), previously
called an Educational Quotient (EQ).[7] Dividing the Reading
Age by the Chronological Age, you arrive at a Reading Quotient.
This RQ is the rate at which the child has progressed in
reading. We have the same kind of quotient for intelligence
(Stanford-Binet IQ). This IQ is the potential rate of progress
of the child.
V. The ratio of any Subject Age to Mental Age[8] may be called
a Subject Ratio (SR), previously called an Accomplishment
Quotient (AccQ).[7] This Subject Ratio gives the proportion
that the child has done in that subject of what he actually
could have done, and is a mark of the efficiency of the
education of the child in that subject to date. The goal is
to bring up these Subject Ratios as high as possible. When
they are above .90, the child may be considered as receiving
satisfactory treatment, providing norms for subject ages
are reasonably accurate. (This figure, .90, applies to a
Subject Ratio obtained by using a Stanford-Binet Mental Age.)
An Arithmetic Ratio based on one arithmetic test and one
intelligence test only is not as good as one based on three
arithmetic tests and three intelligence tests. If Subject
Ratios go far over 1.00 the chances are that the Mental Age
diagnosis is too low. The average of the Subject Ratios of a
child may be called his Accomplishment Ratio.
In the application of the above instructions, whenever
opportunity offers for classification of both subject matter
and intelligence (which means many teachers or a large school),
use a Relation Sheet (for instance for Arithmetic) and then
have additional columns at the extreme right for intelligence
headed _A_, _B_, _C_, and _D_. If a child’s IQ is in the upper
quarter of the IQ’s of your school, check in the column A
opposite his name; if it is in the upper half but not in the
upper quarter check in _B_, and so on with _C_ and _D_. Then
you will be able to split each group; for instance, the one
which is defined as 8th grade in arithmetic ability, into four
sections, each of which progresses at a rate differing from the
others. The _A_ section will progress most rapidly, _B_ next,
_C_ more slowly, and _D_ most slowly.
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