Showing all 5 books
The concept of intelligence quotient was very revolutionary. The psychologists found that there were parameters along which the levels of intelligence could be tested and established. The persons falling the lower 10 percent to 30 per cent category were termed as imbeciles and persons having intelligence level of 30 to 70 per cent were persons of average intelligence, persons falling in the the 90 per cent to 110 per cent category were termed as the most ...
Like 'development', the word 'transition' characterizes a phenomenon associated with motion, which can be regarded either as extended or limited. Thus, 'developing' is applicable to all countries in respect of the continuous process of change resulting from competitive effort, and no country would claim complacently, to have 'arrived'. At the same time, in terms of such stipulated criteria as per capita income, industrial strength, educational opportunity, and so ...
Appraisal of pupil achievement in the classroom has long been an integral part of the instructional process. However, objective means of appraising the achievement of pupils have been developed entirely in the last half-century. Objective tests were either unknown or little used when adults now in middle age or beyond attended elementary and secondary schools. Although some young adults of today have never taken objective tests. In school, it would be difficult ...
The last half the nineteenth century was the establishment or public higher education in America, the enlargement of this education to include such fields as agriculture, engineering, and medicine, and a growing acceptance of the philosophy of the German and English universities, which regarded the intellectual growth of students as the primary responsibility of the institution. The conception of higher education in America changed from concern for the student as ...
There is just as much reason for saying that the instincts are neutral and that the environment makes vices or virtues out of them, as that instincts determine the result. Neither position is in fact, tenable, and the names and phrases cited above are descriptive of the combined effects of nature and nurture. "Characteristics, as such," as Jennings has recently stated with great clarity and convincingness "are not inherited at all, what one ...