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Powell, Pamela Jane – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
School readiness is a quality that adults believe exists within the child, but it actually is an artifact of age-graded schools. Even in a single grade, there will be a one-year spread in ages and, therefore, in development. Instead of sorting children into those who are ready to learn and those who are not, schools should provide opportunities…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Learning Readiness, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Educational Practices
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O'Neill, Patrick; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1976
The Rorschach was given to 60 school children in two designs: chronological age (CA) and mental age (MA) orthogonal and CA=MA. Responses were scored for Form Accuracy, Complexity, Movement and Friedman's Developmental Level (DL) Scoring System. The results suggest that the DL system does assess MA independently of CA. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Differences
Seitz, Sue; And Others – 1968
Twenty high mental age (MA) subjects and 33 low MA subjects who had been in a free word association test 30 months previously were retested with the Moran 80-Word List. At the time of the previous testing, subjects in the high group had a mean chronological age (CA) of 17.1 and mean MA of 11.5; subjects in the low group had a mean CA of 15.3 and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Association Measures, Child Development