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| I'd like to be a baker, and come when morning breaks, Calling out, "Beeay-ko!" (that's the sound he makes)-- Riding in a rattle-cart that jogs and jolts and shakes, Selling all the sweetest things a baker ever bakes; Currant-buns and brand... Read more of THE BAKER at Children Stories.ca | Informational Privacy |
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IntelligenceAlternative Test 2: Writing From DictationVery Superior Intelligence (i Q 120 To 140) Three Commissions The Validity Of The Intelligence Quotient Are Intelligence Tests Superfluous? Duration Of The Examination Giving Similarities Three Things Average Intelligence (i Q 90 To 110) Copying A Diamond Nature Of The Stanford Revision And Extension Material For Use In Testing Keeping The Child Encouraged Supplementary Considerations Dependence Of The Scale's Reliability On The Training Of The Examiner The Distribution Of Intelligence Repeating Six To Seven Syllables Feeble-mindedness (rarely Above 75 I Q) Alternative Test 1: Naming Six Coins The Ball-and-field Test (score 2 Inferior Plan) Effects Of The Revision On The Mental Ages Secured |
The Importance Of TactIt goes without saying that children's personalities are not so uniform and simple that we can adhere always to a single stereotyped procedure in working our way into their good graces. Suggestions like the above have their value, but, like rules of etiquette, they must be supported by the tact which comes of intuition and cannot be taught. The address which flatters and pleases one child may excite disgust in another. The examiner must scent the situation and adapt his method to it. One child is timid and embarrassed; another may think his mental powers are under suspicion and so react with sullen obstinacy; a third may be in an angry mood as a result of a recent playground quarrel. Situations like these are, of course, exceptional, but in any case it is necessary to create in the child a certain mood, or indefinable attitude of mind, before the test begins. Next: Personality Of The Examiner Previous: Keeping The Child Encouraged
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