Mental differences in certain immigrant groups : psychological tests of south Europeans in typical California schools with bearing on the educational policy and on the problems of racial contacts in this country / by Kimball Young.
- Kimball Young
- Date:
- [1922]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Mental differences in certain immigrant groups : psychological tests of south Europeans in typical California schools with bearing on the educational policy and on the problems of racial contacts in this country / by Kimball Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![especially for four schools which serve as samples of the entire system there. Schools A and B are attended largely by children of North-European ancestry, and C and D by Latins. The amount of retardation in the specific race groups was not available. We have followed the Ayres method of computing retardation (3, ch. 4) but in one column have given the figures for retardation in these schools if three years rather than two be “allowed” for normal progress. The differences between the sample “Ameri can” schools and the sample “Latin” schools is still quite as marked, when three years is allowed for passing a given grade. TABLE XIV. RETARDATION IN CERTAIN SCHOOLS IN SAN JOSE, 1919-20 Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent School No. Pupils No. Retard. Retard. Retard. Latins (Ayres) (3-yr. Scale) in Schools Total San Jose 4939 2098 42.4 20.8 40.0 School A 652 177 27.1 9.8 16.1 School B 629 187 29.7 12.1 17.5 School C 770 399 51.8 26.8 81.4 School D 744 464 62.1 38.4 72.4 TABLE XV. COMPARATIVE RETARDATION BY GRADE IN SCHOOLS A, B, C AND D; ALSO PERCENTAGE OF PUPILS IN THE VARIOUS GRADES 1. Fob Schools A and B Together Per Cent Per Cent Grades No. Pupils No. Retard. Retarded in Grades I 212 29 13.7 16.5 II 150 33 22.0 11.7 III 149 49 32.9 11.7 IV 137 50 36.5 10.7 V 161 59 36.6 12.6 VI 169 62 36.6 13.2 VII 140 34 24.3 10.8 VIII 163 48 29.4 12.7 Total 1281 354 2. For Schools C and D Together Per Cent Per Cent Grades No. Pupils No. Retard. Retarded in Grades I 335 143 42.7 22.1 II 243 138 56.8 16.1 III 193 118 61.1 12.7 IV 208 134 64.4 18.7 V 145 103 71.0 9.6 VI 168 104 61.9 11.1 VII 126 78 61.9 8.3 VIII 96 45 46.8 6.3 Total 1614 868 Table XV shows the situation of retardation by grade for the two sample “American” schools and the two “Latin” schools taken each together. In addition is presented the percentage of the total enrollment found in the various grades. For schools A and B the retardation figures for all the grades but the first run from [18]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18026205_0021.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
