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
All disparity not due to intelligence was worked on as far as it was
possible. Thereupon the association of intelligence and educational
product increased markedly and the negative association of intelligence
with achievement in terms of intelligence decreased somewhat. However,
some association of abilities not due to intelligence remains. Exactly
as much negative association of achievement in terms of intelligence,
with intelligence, remains. So, when some of the disparities due to the
environment have been removed and therefore the correlation of Arithmetic
Ratio with Vocabulary Ratio and Reading Ratio has been decreased, the
causes which contributed to a correlation such as lack of interest having
been removed, there still remains some relation of school qualities.
But there also still remains a negative association between this
accomplishment and intelligence which means that we still have a remnant
of such removable influence as is due to badly adjusted curricula.
This enables us to interpret our partials. The partials are not nearer
zero because although we have partialed out the effect of intelligence,
we have not partialed out the factor which controls the negative relation
to intelligence of these very partial resultants, since that is the
effect of the methods and curricula. Though we did advance bright pupils
and give them more chance, we have not given them a chance proportionate
to the stupid children. And that is true since we often wanted to advance
pupils and were not allowed to; whereas we were never allowed to demote
pupils except in particular subject matter. The stupid children were
always at the frontier of their intelligence at the educational cost of
the others.
It is this remnant which has usually been interpreted as “general factor”
or as inherited factors basic to initiative, ambition, and industry.
The fact of importance is that these remnants, these marks of children
independent of their intelligence, are associated negatively with
intelligence to the same degree that they are associated positively to
each other. Unless we wish to assume that the “general factor” or the
inherited bases of initiative and industry are associated negatively
with intelligence we must account for the remnant in some other way. It
seems far more reasonable to attribute this remaining association to the
educational handicaps of intelligence which we were unable to remove.
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