Two samples of Israeli Arab village children were tested on an Arabic translation of the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence; the subtest profiles of these samples were compared to a relevant subsample of the Israeli Jewish normative national sample. (Author/JM)

It is the particular concern of the present paper to examine some important features of the cognitive deficit model, and in particular, to look closely at the assumptions on which compensatory education is based. (Author)

Reviews the furor and reaction to Arthur Jensen's controversial genetic theory of intellectual differences. The cases of Shockley, Eysenck, and Herrnstein are also discussed as instances in which intellectual debate was supplanted by academic persecution and impassioned rhetoric. (EH)

Intelligence tests were administered to a stratified sample of 4058 school children from Palermo, Sicily. I.Q. scores were found to be positively correlated with socioeconomic status and negatively related to family size. As birth order increased, mental development decreased. Implications for future research were discussed. (EH)

Research supported by grant MH-12627 from the National Institute of Mental Health, and based on a PhD dissertation submitted to George Peabody College.

The specificity doctrine, holds that psychometric tests measure nothing other than the specific bits of knowledge and learned skills reflected in the item content of the tests. This prevailing doctrine has influenced the interpretation of test scores and the conceptualization of test validity, as well as the practical use of tests in educational…

A DISCUSSION ON THE VARIOUS RACES WAS PRESENTED. STATISTICS SHOWED THAT LIKENESSES AMONG GROUPS WERE ABOUT 95 PERCENT, WHILE DIFFERENCES WERE ONLY 5 PERCENT. FROM THE BIOLOGICAL STANDPOINT, THERE WAS NO PHYSICALLY INFERIOR OR PHYSICALLY SUPERIOR RACIAL TRAITS. THERE WAS NO PROOF THAT "RACE" AND INTELLIGENCE WERE LINKED. RATHER EVIDENCE…

This paper reviews the research on sex differences in intellectual functioning as it relates to verbal abilities, spatial abilities, and reading aptitudes. Research supports such statements as: sex aptitudes do not become significantly apparent until adolescence; males perform better than females on problems involving field-indep (picking out one…

Although universally acknowledged to be important, the relation between language and cognition is far from clear. While this paper also "sidesteps" this relation, it presumes that less elaborate language is linked to less differentiated cognitive activity. The study described here was aimed at collecting data on language usage for children (and…

Guessing patterns differ between children of lower and middle class. It is hypothesized that lower class children, because they live in an environment affording fewer rewards for problem solving, come to expect a lower degree of success than their middle class peers. Eighty white kindergarten children attending urban public school were divided…

Evaluated with 198 grade 5 students, 94 of whom were classified as high socioeconomic status (SES) and 94 as low SES, were corrolaries of A.R. Jensen's distinction between Level I (associative learning) and Level II (conceptual learning) aspects of intelligence. (Author/DB)

Most students seem not to have learned the transformational grammar their teachers said had been taught.

Psychological labels are too often used by educators as a justification for ignoring student problems, rather than taking steps to help solve them.

This study identified factors associated with postcollege changes in the personality functioning of 170 young alumni. Using the Omnibus Personality Inventory and a questionnaire, relationships between individual change and demographic variables were computed. Respondents with high undergraduate GPA's evidenced considerable intellectual remission.…