Classes for gifted children : an experimental study of methods of selection and instruction / by Guy Montrose Whipple.

  • Whipple, Guy Montrose, 1876-1941.
Date:
[1919], ©1919
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Credit: Classes for gifted children : an experimental study of methods of selection and instruction / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Easy Directions Hard Directions Grade Poorest Aver. Best Poorest Aver. Best Special Fifth .344 .590 .736 .206 .372 .529 Special Sixth .486 .774 1.045 .312 .519 .862 9. Easy and Hard Opposites Tests* An easy oppo¬ sites test was given to the Special Group as a group test in March, 1917. The stimulus words were poor, strong, sick, slow, young, outside, sharp, thin, large, beginning. The responses were written, and each pupil recorded his own time by glancing, when he finished, at the Whipple seconds clock. Later, a hard opposites series {enemy, attractive, over, deceitfid, public, talkative, proud, calm, to hasten, to hate) was given as an individual test to the same group and also to 22 members of the Control Group. In this test each stimulus word was typewritten on a card and each response was timed with a stop-watch. We found, what other users of this test have found, that it serves well as an index of intelligence: thus, 13 of our 15 Special Fifth pupils surpass the average per¬ formance of the Control Fifth; similarly, of the 12 pu¬ pils tested in the Control Sixth, the only two that sur¬ passed the average performance of the Special Sixth were pupils with I. Q.’s of 104 and 130. 10. The Analogies Test, f This test demands the perception of relatively abstract verbal relationships and has been found to be one of the best indexes of this im¬ portant aspect of general mental ability. From the re¬ sults obtained by Dr. W. S. Miller with List C in his testing of all four classes in the Urbana High School, we had supposed that the test could not be used in the 5th or 6th grade, at least that List C would be impossible. *The hard opposites tests were administered by Miss Dora Keen, grad¬ uate student in Education. fFor details of administration, see the writer’s Manual of Mental and Physical Tests, Second Edition, Test 34A, Part II. pp. 89-94.