[Review of the book Intelligence of High School Seniors

Abstract

Reviews the book, Intelligence of High School Seniors by William Frederick Book (see record 1922-10410-000 ). This book presents the results of state wide mental survey of Indiana High Schools. It develops a practical technique for locating the brightest seniors graduating from high school with a view of providing better educational opportunities for them, determines and presents the range, general level and variations in intelligence of high school seniors going to college and colleges of different kinds, the intelligence of seniors coming from different economic and occupational classes, the intelligence of those who had been retarded, accelerated, and regularly promoted in high school and the grades; the intelligence of the seniors selecting different high school courses and different occupational careers, the intelligence of seniors representing different communities and schools, etc. The book is divided into three parts the first describes the method used in making the survey and sets forth why such mental surveys should be made, the second presents the results obtained in this State-wide mental survey. Section three discusses and interprets the results and points out their educational and social significance. It also shows how a mental survey may be used in helping to solve some of the more important practical problems which educators, social workers and progressive business men are called upon to solve, who seek to conserve, cultivate, or utilize the native mental capacities of children and men. The book develops a method or technique which may be used in making mental surveys of communities and schools. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)