The correlations of non-language tests with each other, with school achievement, and with teachers' judgments of the intelligence of children in a school for the deaf

Abstract

Results from the use of the Pintner Non-Language Mental Test, an abbreviated Pintner-Paterson performance series, and the Stanford Achievement Tests in reading and arithmetic on 390 children in a school for the deaf showed: (1) "… a close correspondence between the non-verbal tests." (2) Scores on the tests used indicate the degree of maturity of the some kind (physical, mental, or a combination of both). (3) "With the exception of arithmetic these tests do not predict educational achievement." (4) "There is practically no relation between what is usually considered by teachers as general intelligence and the type of response measured by these tests." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)