Review of A comparison of the intelligence and training of school children in a Massachusetts town

Abstract

Reviews the monographs, A comparison of the intelligence and training of school children in a Massachusetts town by Edwin A. Shaw and Edward A. Lincoln (1922) and Educational Tests in the Elementary Training Schools of Missouri by Walter F. Dearborn, Edward A. Lincoln, and Edwin A. Shaw. In the first monograph we have a report of two surveys of the schools of a small town. Group tests of intelligence and educational tests in arithmetic, writing and reading were given in 1921 and again one year later. The study emphasizes the importance of the interpretation of survey results by the teachers and officers themselves. The second monograph gives the detailed results, with some comment thereon, of the educational tests which were given in the investigation of teacher-training in Missouri. A general summary of the results has already been published in "The Professional Preparation of Teachers for American Schools" issued by the Carnegie Foundation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)