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- Publisher
- Commonwealth Fund
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1929 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 52 –55
- DOI
- 10.1037/14930-007
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
The material was subjected to another method of investigation. The ten children with the highest accomplishment ratios and the ten with the lowest were selected from the group of 167 Los Angeles cases. The selection on the basis of accomplishment ratio rather than educational quotient is defensible on the grounds that the accomplishment ratio represents as well as any measure now available discrepancies between intelligence and educational achievement. (See discussion of the accomplishment ratio, page 45.) If a difference actually exists between children of high and low educational achievement. It should be apparent at the two extremes more readily than elsewhere. Hence the advisability of selecting the ten highest and ten lowest accomplishment ratios In order to compare the characteristics of the children credited with these in the fields of physical make-up, personality, behavior, and social conditions. Since the high accomplishment ratio indicates superior educational achievement for mental ability, while the low accomplishment ratio Implies achievement falling below what could be expected on the basis of mentality, here, if anywhere, we should, have the two extremes of our group. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Jan 25, 2016
Keywords: accomplishment ratios; educational quotient; intelligence; educational achievement; children