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
It is noticeable that when _r_’s approach the limit which the
unreliability of the test allows them, they drop down again. This is
probably due to continued increase of SQ’s over IQ. Of course, for some
SQ’s to be greater than IQ out of proportion to the general amount lowers
the correlation as much as for some to lag behind. When the SQ’s of the
children of lower intelligence reach their IQ they continue above. This,
of course, is due to errors in establishment of the age norms. The norms
are not limits of pushing, though an attempt was made by correction for
truncation to get them as nearly so as possible. It is to be noted,
however, that these norms are up the growth curve, that is, reading
age of 10 means a score such that the average age of those getting it
is 10, not the average score of children whose mental age is 10. The
average reading achievement of children all ten years old chronologically
is _higher_ than that of a group all mentally ten, since many of the
mentally advanced have not been pushed in product. The group used here
to establish norms gives more nearly pushed norms than the others would.
The tendency of the low IQ’s to go over unity in their SR’s is apparent
in Table 1 and in Table 12 and also in the negative correlation between
AccR and IQ.
In both years some second grade children were advanced to Grade III
during the year. This accounts for the low _r_’s in June, 1919, but in
1919-1920 the Grade III correlations are raised and the means raised
toward the M_{IQ}, even though some second grade children were put in
this group during the year.
TABLE 9
SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ARITHMETIC BY INCREASE IN _r_, DECREASE IN
M_{IQ}-M_{AQ} AND DECREASE IN DIFFERENCE OF STANDARD DEVIATIONS
IRRESPECTIVE OF DIRECTION
Average Intelligence Difference of
GRADE _r_ Quotient Minus Standard Deviations
Average Arithmetic Irrespective of
Quotient Sign (of IQ and
Arith. Q)
Nov. June Nov. June Nov. June
III .413 .709 19.25 8.16 6.27 6.63
±.16 ±.08 ±2.87 ±2.05 ±2.04 ±1.45
IV .426 .725 7.41 0.46 2.39 0.47
±.10 ±.06 ±1.84 ±1.50 ±1.29 ±1.02
V .698 .713 16.14 0.54 7.14 2.06
±.07 ±.07 ±1.93 ±1.84 ±1.37 ±1.30
VI 5.33 .805 11.00 3.00 0.19 1.63
±.13 ±.06 ±2.01 ±1.19 ±1.42 ±0.85
VII .740 .795 7.27 0.62 14.03 8.15
±.09 ±.07 ±3.58 ±2.33 ±2.53 ±1.63
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