Deficient Children: Being an Application of the Binet Scale of Intelligence to the Backward Children in the Bloomington, Indiana, Public Schools; Submitted as Part Requirement for Degree of Master of

Excerpt from Deficient Children: Being an Application of the Binet Scale of Intelligence to the Backward Children in the Bloomington, Indiana, Public Schools; Submitted as Part Requirement for Degree of Master of Arts in the School of Education, Indiana University, 1914; With Charts And <p>The work of testing the defective children of the Bloomington graded schools was begun in January 1914 and was completed in May of the same year. Out of the total number of 1778 school children 286 were found to be defective, mentally. The binet-simon scale was used in the form in which it was revised by Dr. Henry H. Goddard, of the Training School of Vineland, New Jersey. From the teacher of each room was secured a list of the children whom she found to be, or at least suspect ed them to be, subnormal and unable to cope with the intelligence of the average child. The cloak rooms of the different buildings were turn ed into minature clinics, each of which was fitted up with a table, two chairs, and the different pieces of apparatus used in making thetests. As soon as one child was test ed, he was asked to tell the next child on the list to come down to the room. The average time taken to test the younger children was twenty minutes, and usually from thirty to thirty five minutes was consumed in testing the larger ones. </p><p>About the Publisher </p><p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com </p><p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

Excerpt from Deficient Children: Being an Application of the Binet Scale of Intelligence to the Backward Children in the Bloomington, Indiana, Public Schools; Submitted as Part Requirement for Degree of Master of Arts in the School of Education, Indiana University, 1914; With Charts And

The work of testing the defective children of the Bloomington graded schools was begun in January 1914 and was completed in May of the same year. Out of the total number of 1778 school children 286 were found to be defective, mentally. The binet-simon scale was used in the form in which it was revised by Dr. Henry H. Goddard, of the Training School of Vineland, New Jersey. From the teacher of each room was secured a list of the children whom she found to be, or at least suspect ed them to be, subnormal and unable to cope with the intelligence of the average child. The cloak rooms of the different buildings were turn ed into minature clinics, each of which was fitted up with a table, two chairs, and the different pieces of apparatus used in making thetests. As soon as one child was test ed, he was asked to tell the next child on the list to come down to the room. The average time taken to test the younger children was twenty minutes, and usually from thirty to thirty five minutes was consumed in testing the larger ones.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book format	Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction	Non-Fiction
Genre	Education
Publication date	December, 2018
Pages	88
Edition	Standard Edition
Publisher	Forgotten Books
Original languages	English
Language	English
Edu focus	Special Education
Educational level	Elementary School
Binding type	Perfect Binding
Assembled product height	9.02 in
Assembled product weight	0.28 lb
Bisac subject heading	Education