Compared the performance of 29 institutionalized cultural-familial mental retardates on Piagetian conservation tasks. Examined the effects of age, sex, and degree of retardation on conservation performance. (BD)

Racial and social class factors as a determinant of school achievement for minority group children are discussed with reference to the many empirical studies in this area. (Author/AM)

Normal infants were administered the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 6 months and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale at 3 years. At 6 months the quality of stimulation found in the early environment was measured. Results indicate that home environment may contribute to instability of performance on infant tests. (GO)

Administered the Hooper Visual Organization Test (VOT) to 54 elementary students referred for psychometric evaluation. Results showed no significant relationship between sex and VOT scores, but age and IQ were significant correlates. (JAC)

Evaluated demographic and developmental differences in case studies of disturbed children (N=58) who were treated with developmental therapy. Results indicated children differed in age, intelligence, and mother's employment status. Although all children progressed in behavior, communication, socialization, and academics, no difference was found in…

Notes that preschool compensatory education has not resulted in any appreciable, durable gains in I.Q. or scholastic achievement. Posits that compensatory programs remedied deficiencies in knowledge but not in cognitive processes. Suggests further research into the nature of intelligence and its malleability. (PGD)

The hypothesis that racial differences in IQ stem from differences in components of executive systems including knowledge base, control processes, and metacognition was investigated. Group differences in metamemory, strategy use, and general knowledge, but not perceptual efficiency, were observed. Metamemory predicted crystallized but not fluid…

Investigated whether attitudes toward school mathematics on mathematical achievement differed between low and high intelligence eighth-grade students in three Japanese schools (N=808). Results indicate that the attitude of low intelligence students is more important and it affects more in magnitude than that of high intelligence students. (JN)

Explores the generality of findings relating intelligence to Inspection Time (IT), the exposure necessary to judge which of two lines is longer, in two studies using normal children and mentally retarded adults. Results showed the relationship between IT and performance IQ was lower in the mentally retarded group. (JAC)

Focuses on the strategy of using the science of genetics to pepetuate the racism of the dominant society, proposing that arguments presented by the "liberal" proponents of special programs in abandoning the goals of the 1960s were used to rationalize the reopening of the latent question of genetic black inferiority. (Author/JM)

Subjects were 30 boys aged 9-12 with learning disabilities. Lower socioeconomic status (LSES) learning-disabled boys scored lower than the normal population on both verbal and performance scales of the WISC while upper-middle socioeconomic status (USES) boys scored lower only on verbal tests. USES boys scored higher than LSES boys in Performance…

Studies the relationship between social class and intelligence age five among 400 children of mature birthweight and without significant prenatal complications, in order to identify variables which would statistically account for the influence of social class upon I.Q. (Author/JM)

A critique arguing: (1) that the assumptions underlying the use of intelligence tests are invalid; (2) that findings regarding individual differences can not be generalized to differences between populations; and, (3) that the studies cited as evidence were both incorrectly designed and improperly executed. (JM)

The challenge of education is to extend the work of education from a classroom perspective which focuses on the child's learning academic subjects in the classroom with a professional educator to a life-time and life-space perspective which extends from birth onward. (Author)