Part 10 (2/2)
The total number of children between 110 and 120 is almost exactly the same as the number between 80 and 90; naroups (say between 85 and 115) is as great as the distance between average intelligence and border-line deficiency, and it would be absurd to suppose that they could be taught to best advantage in the same classes As a matter of fact, pupils between 110 and 120 are usually held back to the rate of progress which the average child can ed to do their best
VERY SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE (I Q 120 TO 140) Children of this group are better than soe They are unusually superior Not h as 125 I Q, and only about 1 out of 100 as high as 130 In the schools of a city of average population only about 1 child in 250 or 300 tests as high as 140 I Q
In a series of 476 unselected children there was not a single one reaching 120 whose social class was described as ”below average”[29] Of the children of superior social status, about 10 per cent reached 120 or better The 120-140 group isto the professional or very successful business classes
The child of a skilled laborer belongs here occasionally, the child of a common laborer very rarely indeed At least this is true in the s populations made up of native-born Americans
In all probability it would not have been true in the earlier history of the country when ordinary labor was ence, and it would probably not hold true now aood stock, but lies
[29] In other investigations, however, we have found even brighter children from very inferior homes See p 117 for an exarade of ability do in school? The question cannot be answered as satisfactorily as one could wish, for the simple reason that such children are rarely permitted to do what they can What they do accomplish is as follows: Of 54 children (of the 1000 unselected cases) falling in this group, 12 per cent were advanced in the grades two years, approximately 54 per cent were advanced one year, 28 per cent were in the grade where they belonged by chronological age, and three children, or 5 per cent, were actually retarded one year
But wherever located, such children rarely get anything but the highest oes to show that h school by the age of 12 years Serious injury is done the on the brakes”
The following are illustrations of children testing between 130 and 145
Not all are taken from the 1000 unselected tests The writer has discovered several children of this grade as a result of lectures before teachers' institutes It is his custo in for a dehtest child in the city” (or county, etc) The I Q resulting from such a test is usually between 130 and 140, occasionally a little higher
_Exae 8-10; e 11-1; I Q 130_ Father only a skilled laborer (house painter), but a ence and character for his social class Hoe M P has attended school a little less than three years and is corade Marks all ”excellent”
Health perfect Social and moral traits of the very best Is obedient, conscientious, and unusually reliable for her age
Quiet and confident bearing, but no touch of vanity
M P is known to be related on her father's side to John Wesley, and her hly skilleddevice used on all railroads
Although she is not yet 9 years old and is corade belohere she belongs by h school by the age of 12
_J R Girl, age 12-9; hter of a university professor In first year of high school Frorade up her marks have been nearly all of the A rank For first serades were A, the others B A wonderfully charirl in every respect Play life perfectly norreat deal and she has attended eight different schools She is two years above grade in school, but of this gain only one-half grade was ained in a little over a year by staying out of school and working a little each day under the instruction of her mother_ But for this she would doubtless now be in the seventh grade instead of in high school
As it is she is at least a grade belohere she belongs by e record e 7-9; e 10-2; I Q 130_ E B was selected by the teachers of a shtest school child in that city (school population about 500) Her parents are said to be unusually intelligent E B is in the third grade, a year advanced, but her s in the fourth The test was made as a demonstration test in the presence of about 150 teachers, all of ere charhtful personality and keen responses No trace of vanity or queerness of any kind Health excellent E B ought to be ready for high school at 12; she will really have the intelligence to do high-school work by 11
[Illustration: FIG 13 BALL AND FIELD TEST E B, AGE 7-9; I Q 130]
_L B Girl, age 8-6; e 11-6; I Q 135_ Tested nearly three years earlier, age 5-11; hter of a university professor At age of 8-6 was doing very superior work in the fifth grade Later, at age of 10-6, is in the seventh grade with all her h, both coe L B looks rather delicate, and though a little nervous is ordinarily strong We have known her since her early childhood Like both her sisters, she is a favorite with young and old, as nearly perfection as the e 6-5; e 5-2 he had a e of 7-6, I Q 142 Father a university professor R S entered school at exactly 6 years of age, and at the present writing is 7 years old and is entering the third grade Leads his class in school and takes delight in the work Is norhtful beyond his years Should enter high school not later than 12; could probably be made ready a year earlier, but as he is soe 10-6; e 14; I Q 133_ At 13-6 tested at ”superior adult,” and had vocabulary of 13,000 (also ”superior adult”) Son of a college professor Did not go to school till age of 9 years and was not taught to read till 8 At this writing he is 15 years old and is a senior in high school
He will coh-school course in three and one-half years with A to B marks, mostly A Gets his hardest mathematics lessons in five to ten e's _Nature Study and Life_ at age of 11 years he literally slept with the book till he aliven azines on mechanics and electricity At 13 he installed a wireless apparatus without other aid than his electrical e, a rather re electrical applications He is known by his playmates as ”the boy with a hobby” Stamp collections, butterfly and moth collections (over 70 different varieties), seashore collections, and wireless apparatus all show that the appellation is fully merited He chooses his hobbies and ”rides”
thee 8-2; e 11-4; I Q 138_ Father was a lawyer, parents now dead Is in high fourth grade Leads his class Attractive, healthy, nor and obedient, strongly attached to his foster mother (an aunt) Composes verses and fables for pastihth birthday They are reproduced without change of spelling or punctuation:--