Review of Methods and Results of Testing School Children

Abstract

Reviews the book, Methods and Results of Testing School Children by Evelyn Dewey, Emily Child, and Beardsley Ruml (1920). This book is the result of a Psychological Survey conducted in the New York City Public Schools in February, 1915. The immediate purpose of the investigation was to obtain norms for a series of tests for New York public school children in the poorer and more congested portions of the city, and a basis for further study of the value of mental tests for improved school procedure. It was hoped that the results would justify the establishment of a school clinic for normal children to assist the teacher in meeting the problems of individual pupils. The investigation is rather thorough as far as it goes and the work was necessarily slow and painstaking, but such an investigation must be pushed further to include larger numbers of children of all nationalities and all environmental conditions so that satisfactory norms may be established and Psychological Clinics formed in connection with the school departments of various cities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)