Report of the Mental Deficiency Committee : being a joint committee of the Board of Education and Board of Contro.

  • Great Britain. Mental Deficiency Committee
Date:
1929
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    Performance Tests. The conditions under which our investigation was conducted made it impossible to apply Performance Tests with the care and thoroughness that is practicable at a psychological clinic; nevertheless, several of these tests were used in supplementing our examination with the scale of intelligence. They proved most valuable and helpful, especially in the examination of the young children of lower grades, the feeble-minded with verbalistic pro- pensities, the deaf-mute and the blind. The borderline standards with these tests for the various grades of mental defect correspond approximately with those indicated in Chapter 2 of this Report, the two chief being the mental age of 53 to 6 as the upper borderline of imbecility and the mental age of 8 to 10 that of the feeble-minded. The recent publication of compre- hensive manuals of Performance Tests* makes it unnecessary to describe in detail in this report the tests we used or the forms applied, and all we need do is to give the following list of the tests applied most frequently: the Seguin Form-Board, Porteus Maze testst ; Goddard’s Adaptation Board; Healy’s Construction, Tests A and B; and Healy’s Picture Completion Tests 1 and 2. Educational Tests. READING (ACCURACY). Age. No. of words. 4—to is of at he my up or no an 10 5—his for sun big day sad pot wet one now 20 6—that gir] went boys some just told love water things 30 7—catry village nurse quickly _—_— return known journey __— terror obtain tongue 40 8—shelves scramble twisted beware commenced scarcely belief steadiness labourers serious 50 9—projecting fringe luncheon nourishment overwhelmed urge explorer trudging events motionless 60 10—economy formulate exhausted contemptuous renown universal circumstances destiny glycerine atmosphere 70 11—perpetual emergency humanity perambulating ultimate apprehend excessively domineer theory reputation 80 12—physician fatigue philosopher melodrama autobiography constitutionally champagne encyclopedia hypocritical efficiency 90 18—melancholy exorbitant influential terminology palpable mercenary contagion fallacious binocular microscopical 100 14—atrocious phlegmatic refrigerator unique alienate eccentricity ingratiating subtlety poignancy phthisis 110 * A Manual of Individual Mental Tests and Testing: Bronuer, Healy, Low and Shinberg. (Publishers—Little, Brown & Co., Boston.) The Use of Performance Tests of Intelligence in Vocational Guidance: F. M. Earle, M. Milner and others. Medical Research Council; Industrial Fatigue Research Board’s Report No. 53. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1929.) t+ Complete sets of these tests are given in the “‘ Handbook of Tests for Use in Schools’: C. Burt. (Publishers—P. 5. King & Son, Ltd., London.) t The Educational Tests are those given by Professor Cyril Burt in his ‘‘Handbook of Tests for Use in Schools,’’ published by P. S. King & Son, Ltd., London), to whose courtesy we are indebted for permission to reprint these Tests. (37588) 1*2