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Excerpt from Clinical Studies of Failures With the Witmer Formboard: A Thesis
In 1915 - 16 H. H. Youngl made the first extensive study with the Witmer Formboard and used the results from testing 1474 normal boys and 1375 normal girls of all ages for a preliminary and basic standardization of normal children.
The object of the following investigation was threefold; (1) to study the formboard as an educational device; (2) to analyze failures so as to determine why a subject fails and what his failure means; and (3) to get one who has failed, to do the test with a minimum amount of teaching.
No attempt was made to examine a large number of children. The investigation was not interested in the standardization of results or in standard procedure, but in learning what difficulties the form board presents, what causes failure, and what failure means in rela tion to diagnosis. Wherever children were tested in a school, the request was made that the worst in the room be sent. That is, failures were not selected from a miscellaneous number who were offered for the test, but were found by examining the youngest and most backward pupils in the lowest grades and kindergarten of two public schools and a Montessori school, and the most apparently backward children who could be found about a small social center.
Some children who failed, as well as some very young children, were given instruction. This is reported under each case. In general, failure was determined arbitrarily by the fact that the trial was left as finished when one or more blocks were left unplaced or incorrectly placed, or that the child received some assistance, or more than the stand instructions as given in the method of procedure.
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