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Excerpt from Studies in Child Welfare, Vol. 2: Mental Growth Curve of Normal and Superior Children, Studied by Means of Consecutive Intelligence Examinations
The conditions for a study of this kind were particularly favor able. The University Observational Schools, in the same building as the Child Welfare Research Station, are attended largely by the children of the professional and business men of the city and Of prosperous farmers nearby. The tuition is small, making the expense comparable to that of children attending the public schools Of the town Where text-books are not supplied. The tone of the school is free and democratic. The children are accustomed to all sorts Of educational and psychological experiments and re gard the annual re-examination as a regular part of the school pro gram. There is no reason to believe that any undue amount of communication or discussion went on among the children in re gard to the mental tests; in fact, the examiner frequently noted the fact that a child remembered having been asked a certain question a year ago but did not give further evidence that the answer had been learned. The investigation had the interest and support Of the school stafi, most Of Whom were college graduates who were anxious to make the experimental conditions as favor able as possible. The examinations were given by four psychologists1 during the period between September, 1917, and May, 1921. In all 485 mental age determinations were made on 143 children. Of these 178 were given by Miss Vest, 8 by Miss Schriefer (who was de voting her time to the examination of other children entering the school), 77 by Miss Wagoner, and 222 by Miss Stecher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
