A Comparative Study of the Mentality and Achievement of Mexican and White Children |
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Page 1 - I INTRODUCTION STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM THE purpose of this study is...
Page 3 - European parentage in mental processes involving memory and abstract thinking based on meanings or concepts represented by the verbal symbols of the English language. 2. Japanese children are at least equal and possibly superior to American in mental processes involving memory and thinking based upon concrete, visually presented situations of a non-verbal character.
Page 2 - ... Japanese and Chinese children is greater than their Binet IQ's ascertained on scales administered in English would indicate. There is reason to believe that mental ages so derived are at least 2 to 4 months too low. 2. Japanese and Chinese children seem definitely inferior to American white children in mental processes involving memory and abstract thinking based on meanings or concepts represented by the verbal symbols of the English language. There is some reason to believe that this is not...
Page 6 - ... colored enrollment was 24 boys and 34 girls. Sheldon, William H. The intelligence of Mexican children. School and society, 13 ; 139-42, February 2, 1924. The study finds that the average Mexican child is 14 months below normal mental development for white children of same age and school environment ; that Mexican children are less intelligent than American, English, Hebrew, and Chinese children, but more intelligent than indian, Slavic, italian, and negro children ; and that chronological age...
Page 3 - ... Darsie subtracted each average rating from the median of 7 and divided the difference by the respective standard deviation. The differences between these quotients for Japanese and whites are given in his Table 45 (not reproduced here). He comments on this table as follows: Japanese children impress teachers as being less self-confident, freer from vanity, and more sensitive to approval than American children They are also rated as more stable emotionally and more responsive to beauty than Americans...
Page 5 - It was found that after a child attended an American school for one or two years, he tested as high (on the Binet) by employing the English language as by using his native tongue.
Page 46 - We may conclude, then, that the racial problem which exists when Mexican children are present in the upper elementary grades of the public schools is not due, to any great extent, to the fact that the Mexican children speak a foreign language, but probably due to the fact that they are definitely lower mentally than white children.
Page 24 - Mexicans by an amount which is approximately equal to the amount that the whites exceed the Mexicans in intelligence.