A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch.

  • Hirsch, Nathaniel David Mttron, 1896-
Date:
[1926], ©1926
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Credit: A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII READING TESTS, EFFORT AND INTELLIGENCE More than seven hundred of our testees were also given Reading Tests. In the 2nd and 3rd grades the Haggerty I Reading test was employed ; in the 4th and 5th grades the Advanced Reading test of the Stanford Achievement test was used; and in the 6th grade the Haggerty III Reading test was used. Success upon tests of this sort is due to one or more of the following causes : (1) Type of teaching the testee has received. (2) The effort and application of the testee in his school work, (3) Innate mental ability of the subject. ?:;a| (4) Testee's familiarity with the English language. If one assumes that the various National groups received equally excellent training in the Public Schools, the results from the reading tests are due to the functioning of the other three causes. A reading test makes no pretense at dis¬ criminating among these three factors, so that we can merely give the actual achievements of several of the National groups, without attempting to attribute these results to one or to an¬ other factor or to weigh the results among the three factors. However, in respect to the English speaking groups, the E. Q's* are considerably higher than the I. Q's of these groups. This superiority is probably due to language familiarity rather than to application and effort. More than 100 of the subjects taking the reading test fell in National groups composed of less than 25, so that we have *The results from Educational tests are often expressed in terms of E. Q., an abbreviation for Education Quotient.