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
The averages of these remnants, for reading, vocabulary, and completion,
correlate -.61 in 1918 and -.49 in 1920 with IQ. These remnants are in
negative association to intelligence. If the intercorrelations of these
remnants were due to a “General Factor,” this correlation would not be
negative.
Therefore intelligence is far and away the most important determinant of
individual differences in product.
As part of the relation between tests, irrespective of intelligence, is
due to common elements in the tests, this reasoning becomes still more
probable.
General factor in education, as distinct from intelligence, has not
been separated here from inherited bases of ambition, concentration,
and industry. It seems out of our province to conjure up some inherited
complex of abilities other than intelligence, specialized inherited
abilities, or proclivities and interests tending to thorough prosecution
of school work. I have therefore meant this last by the general factor.
McCall has correlations varying continually in size from -.63 to +.98
between various measurements of a group of 6B children.[17] The abilities
involved were not pushed as are those considered here. Some of the low
correlations are no doubt indications of low association because of the
way children _are_, not the way they _might be_ by heritage; still
others, such as handwriting and cancellation (unless bright children
do badly in cancellation tests because they are _more bored_ than the
others), are correlated low or negatively with intelligence when the
correlation is at its maximum. Such results as those of McCall serve as a
guide not to argue about other tests by analogy. It is necessary to find
which traits and abilities can be pushed to unity in their relation to
intelligence and which, like handwriting, are practically unrelated to
general mental power.
It is well to know about music tests and such tests as Stenquist’s
mechanical ability test _when the correlation with intelligence is
pushed_, before we decide whether the quality measured is a manifestation
of specific talent or general intelligence.
Cyril Burt obtained data much like that presented here except that
instead of getting rid of the influence of intelligence and finding
determinants for the remnants of disparity, he built up a hierarchy of
coefficients as they would be if they were due entirely to a common
factor and compared these with his obtained _r_’s. I will present his
conclusions with regard to a general factor which are in substantial
though not complete agreement with those advanced here.
“Evidence of a Single Common Factor.
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