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
To make still more certain this observation of positive amount in M of
second testing minus M of first testing and in S.D. of first testing
minus S.D. of second testing (AccR), which means an increase in central
tendency of AccR’s and a decrease in spread of AccR’s under special
treatment, we have listed in Table 13 the means and standard deviations
of Subject Ratios of each test for each period and the intercorrelations
of these Subject Ratios. These do not include exactly the same children
in each period but are inclusive of all grades for all periods. They
are a measurement of increased efficiency of the school as a whole,
rather than of any one group of children; though, of course, the bulk
of the children have representation in each of these indices. Too much
continuity is not to be expected from June, 1919, to November, 1919, as
the children are different. Comparison should always be from November to
June.
These tables bear out the fact presented by AccR. It is clear that
there is a marked development in the S.R.’s, both by increase of M.
and decrease of S.D. The decrease of correlation between S.R.’s is not
so marked, but neither is the negative correlation between AccR and
IQ much less in June, 1920, than in November, 1918. The association
of achievements in terms of intelligence is very probably due to
mistreatment, since it is in negative correlation with IQ, as a general
inherited ethical factor could not be.
We will note that the Arithmetic Ratios are in as high positive
association with the Reading Ratios as the Vocabulary Ratios are with the
Reading Ratios. This makes it highly improbable that the intercorrelation
of these remnants is due, to any large extent, to common elements in
the test or to specific abilities. The common interassociation of all
Ratios seems to point to the operation of some common factor other than
intelligence as a determinant of disparity in school progress. It would
be easy to identify this as the part of Burt’s “General Educational
Factor” which is not intelligence—that is, industry, general perseverance
and initiative—were it not for the fact that this same influence _stands
in negative association to intelligence_. It is our belief that it is the
influence of a maladjusted system of curricula and methods which accounts
for these rather high interassociations of achievements, irrespective of
intelligence.
SUMMARY
The association of abilities in arithmetic, reading, and completion with
intelligence is markedly raised by special treatment. Disparities of
educational product are therefore to a great extent due to intelligence.
(Tables 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.)
The remnants (intelligence being rendered constant by division of each
SQ by IQ) intercorrelate about .5. If there were specialized inherited
abilities, these intercorrelations would not all be positive nor would
they be as uniform. (Tables 6 and 13.)
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