The Binet Tests Applied to Colored Children
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on pedagogic retardation owing to the fact that the psychological retardation of large numbers of children was impossible to ascertain. The Binet test furnishes us with a method for measuring the psychological retardation of the child. It is, however, almost impossible to test every child in the school system of a great city by means of these tests. This is so for two reasons: first, the length of time that would be required; secondly, the limited number of those who can handle the Binet tests. This method of testing, however, might be easily applied to a limited group of children and the psychological retardation compared with the pedagogic. In a former article (The Psychological Clinic, Vol. 6, No. 3) a comparison was made of the retardation of schools containing all colored pupils and of those containing none or only a few. The result of this has shown that the retardation of the colored schools is as follows:
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