M. Geensen

Retarded Children

An Analysis of Test Scores

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Produktbeschreibung

In the present report the results are discussed of a psychological testing program which was apart of the preparation for a multi-disciplinary, national investigation into the need for guidance of the mentally de ficient. A team of sociologists traced two groups of children, ten and thirteen years old respectively, and suspected of mental deficiency. The psychologists subsequently tested this sampie in order to decide whether the subjects could indeed be regarded as mentally deficient, if an intelligence quotient of 79 or lower is taken as criterion. As a second assessment task, a systematic categorization with a view to the expected needs for guidance was attempted. For this purpose the total sampie was divided into subgroups on the basis of test result patterns. RESEARCH QUESTIONS The analysis of the data from this sampie provided an interesting op portunity for a number of explorations into both theoretical and prac tical questions, which are only partly related to the aims ofthe investi gation. These questions concern the merits of the tests used, the structure of the test scores in the sampie under investigation, and some other general problems about the sampie and the subpopulation of the mentally deficient. Questions about the tests concern their suitability for the investiga tion of mentally retarded subjects, in particular for assessing their need for guidance. Another question involves in which way the testing pro gram can best be reduced when for some children the time available is not sufficient for a complete administration.

Produktdetails

• Tilburg Studies on Health Care 2
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-237-2915-0
• 1973.
• Seitenzahl: 141
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1973
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9789023729150
• ISBN-10: 9023729153
• Artikelnr.: 24531961

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction and statement of the problem.- 1. Aim and organization of the Amsterdam investigation.- 2. Nature of the psychological investigation.- 3. The sample investigated.- II. Description of the psychological examination.- 1. The task of the psychological investigation.- 2. Instruments used.- 3. Time and place of the psychological examination.- 4. Examiners and examined.- III. Results of the investigation with the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS).- 1. Available scores.- 2. Total scores and social ages.- 3. The social quotient.- 4. Discussion.- IV. Results of the investigation with the subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC).- 1. wisc-subtest 1. Information.- 2. wisc-subtest 2. Comprehension.- 3. wisc-subtest 3. Arithmetic.- 4. wisc-subtest 4. Similarities.- 5. wisc-subtest 5. Vocabulary.- 6. wisc-subtest 6. Digit Span.- 7. wisc-subtest 7. Picture Completion.- 8. wisc-subtest 8. Picture Arrangement.- 9. wisc-subtest 9. Block design.- 10. wisc-subtest 10. Object Assembly.- 11. wisc-subtest 11. Substitution.- 12. wisc-subtest 12. Mazes.- V. WISC Profiles of the group investigated.- 1. A wisc profile for the whole group.- 2. The two year-groups.- 3. Boys and girls.- VI. The WISC-scores VQ, PQ and IQ.- 1. The vq or Verbal Intelligence Quotient.- 2. The pq or Performance Intelligence Quotient.- 3. The wiseiq.- VII. Relations between WISC scores.- 1. Correlations between wisc scores.- 2. Factor analyses of wisc scores.- 3. The difference between vq and pq; absolute differences.- 4. The statistical regression theory and the difference between vq and pq.- VIII. Combinations of VSMS and WISC scores.- 1. Correlations between the scores for both tests.- 2. The difference between sq and iq; absolute differences.- 3. The statistical regression theory and the difference between sq and iq.- 4. Categories based on (vq-pq) and (sq-iq).- IX. Some special groups.- 1. Children with a 'good' intelligence quotient.- 2. Children with 'good' scores for Information and/or Arithmetic.- 3. The children transferred from special to normal schools.- 4. The most severely retarded children in the group under investigation.- X. Sex differences in prevalence of mental retardation?.- 1. The difference between both age groups.- 2. iq levels and differences between numbers of boys and girls.- 3. Score differences between boys and girls.- 4. Score differences per iq level.- 5. Discussion.- XI. Some results of the investigation with the Merrill Palmer Scale (Stutsman).- XII. Conclusions.- 1. Tests and test scores.- 2. The group under investigation.- Summary.- References.