A Report on the Examination of One Hundred 6B Children in Philadelphia Schools

In addition to this aim, the study served another purpose of particular value to the Division of Special Education, in that it afforded a sample of the performance of normal sixth grade children. Every year there are referred to the psychological clinic of this division, thousands of children who are doing unsatisfactory work in the grades. It is of value to know how the performance of these children compares with that of those who are not selected from the normal group. The study of a relatively large number of children of about the same age affords a standard to which individual children may be compared. In the psychological clinic of the Division of Special Education, high school students and apparently normal children from twelve years of age and upwards, have been given a Morgan Mental Test as part of their examination. The test has been used to gain