A mass mental test for use with kindergarten and first grade children

Abstract

Every year finds a greater number of public schools attempting to classify their pupils according to mental ability, and to measure their mental ability by means of mental tests. As an adequate individual mental examination of all children in a large school system is impossible without a large force of mental examiners, the mass test has come into quite general use. There are a number of mass tests adapted for use with children of the third and more advanced grades, but it has been found difficult to devise tests that can be used successfully with groups of kindergarten and first grade children. This article describes an experiment that tested the effectiveness of using the Picture Game as a mental test for children in this age group. The results here given confirm the impression gained by the writer in conducting the tests that the Picture Game is adapted to use with kindergarten and first grade children, and that by its use one can obtain a fairly good classification of children in these two lower grades. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)