Brighter pupils tend to work below capacity: the authors argue the greatest wastage exists among the brightest children, who may keep up to group averages while working under their ability¶
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q1 i? The authors assert that the greatest amount of waste exists among the brighter pupils and better schools, and that the bright child is the most retarded while the dull child is the most accelerated. → Pintner 1920
Evidence¶
Pintner 1920¶
Pintner, R., and Marshall, H. (1920). A Combined Mental-Educational Survey. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=A+Combined+Mental-Educational+Survey+Pintner+Marshall
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This is the authors' interpretive claim in the introduction, offered without data in this passage; the Difference method is presented as the instrument that will measure such wastage. The article offers no effect size here.
"As a matter of fact we shall see, what we have long suspected and what we have only recently consciously realized, that the greatest amount of waste exists among the brighter pupils in a class or among the better schools in a school system."
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Related Claims¶
- Equal practice increases rather than reduces initial ability differences in addition within the same grade — related
- Cases with Differences of minus 9 or below — 21.5 per cent of the standardization sample — are described as marked cases of wasted intelligence whose ability is not being utilized — related
- Substantial overlap exists between bright and dull groups: 48 per cent of poor pupils match the lowest good-group record — related
- Schooling adjusted to the average under-serves exceptionally intelligent pupils and can be morally dangerous for them — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Pedagogy has developed for average and subnormal children but still lacks a pedagogy of supernormal children — related
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Brighter pupils tend to work below capacity: the authors argue the greatest wastage exists among the brightest children, who may keep up to group averages while working under their ability |
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Brighter pupils tend to work below capacity: the authors argue the greatest wastage exists among the brightest children, who may keep up to group averages while working under their ability |
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