Search for Children Showing Academic Promise in a Predominantly Negro School

Ames, Louise Bates; Ilg, Frances L.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1967.10533734

The Journal of Genetic Psychology

1967

DOI: 10.1080/00221325.1967.10533734

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Search for Children Showing Academic Promise in a Predominantly Negro School

Louise Bates Ames¹,

Frances L. Ilg²

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“…Several researchers have already shown some evidence that even on Piagetian tasks there are cultural influences in performance that are supportive of the hypothesis of differential performance across racial and social class groups (De Lemos, 1969;Tuddenham, 1969;Vernon, 1965). In addition, Ames and Ilg (1967) found Negro performance on other developmental tests such as the Rorschach to be surprisingly atypical regarding improvement and development with age.…”

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Race, social class, and age of achievement of conservation on Piaget's tasks.

Gaudia¹

1972

Developmental Psychology

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A series of standardized conservation tasks was administered to 126 lower socioeconomic status Indian, Negro, and white children in the first three grades. The tasks included the conservation of area, number, continuous and discontinuous quantity, weight, and mass. Comparisons were made between the performances of the three racial groups. The performance of the entire sample was also compared with the results of a norming study carried out by the test's authors on a racially and socially heterogeneous group. Significant differences were found between the Negroes and the Indian and white groups on age of acquisition of conservation, and the entire research sample differed significantly from the norming group. Age of acquisition of conservation is at least a year retarded in the Negro sample, and in lower socioeconomic status children, with older children showing the most retardation. There were significant correlations between conservation and CA and IQ within all groups at every age level. 1 This study is based on a dissertation done under the direction of Aubrey Roden and submitted to the State University of New York at Buffalo in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree in May of 1970.2 Requests for reprints should be sent to the author,

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Race, social class, and age of achievement of conservation on Piaget's tasks.

Gaudia¹

1972

Developmental Psychology

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FM: Clinically meaningful rorschach index with minority children?

Scott

1981

Psychol. Schs.

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Recent court actions have spurred psychologists to develop improved assessment tools and to utilize diagnostic measures that take into consideration developmental and affective growth patterns of disadvantaged and minority youth. The present study, working through a case vignette, has weighed the possibility that the FM index may serve as a forerunner of abstract thinking, or the capacity to internalize imagery, which, in Rorschach theory, is, with older subjects, best illustrated in M. Findings also suggest that the Z (Organizational Activity) index may not be useful in evaluating intellectual potentials of preschool minority children. Following blind analysis of the Rorschach, replicative data were obtained through a social history and an individually-administered ability test. Data from these sources support the major finding that FM may enable educational diagnosticians to estimate more accurately the intellectual capabilities of some preschool minority and other culturally disadvantaged children.The past decade has witnessed an increased emphasis on the need to assess more accurately the intellectual capabilities of children, and particularly minority children. There is general agreement that black youngsters secure, on most measures of intelligence, average attainments that fall approximately one standard deviation below those of whites. Reasons for this racial gap are unclear, and the implications obscured, because of considerable racial overlap. Yet, extensive and significant educational questions have arisen because of the (average) racial gap.

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Projective Techniques in Crisis

Hertz¹

1970

Journal of Projective Techniques and Personality Assessment

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Search for Children Showing Academic Promise in a Predominantly Negro School

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Race, social class, and age of achievement of conservation on Piaget's tasks.

Race, social class, and age of achievement of conservation on Piaget's tasks.

FM: Clinically meaningful rorschach index with minority children?

Projective Techniques in Crisis

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