Mental and Scholastic Tests.

Mental and Scholastic Tests

This volume, one of vital importance to all interested in the problems and implications of mental testing, makes a timely reappearance in a second and enlarged edition. Here we have a detailed description and analysis of the investigations carried out by the author during his years spent as Psychologist to the London County Council. The appointment of Dr. Burt to that post in 1913 marked the be...

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Scholastic medicine and philosophy

chosen to claim it for their own, and the meaning of many of its phrases has long been the subject of doubt and discussion. This beautifully produced edition will go far towards informing the German reader of the difficulties of interpreting the Oath, and will alert him to some of the dangers of an eager identification of ancient and modern. He will also gain from some of the commentators' subt...

Trends in preschool lead exposure, mental retardation, and scholastic achievement: association or causation?

This study shows that 1936-1990 preschool blood lead trends explain 65% of the 1948-2001 variation in USA mental retardation (MR) prevalence, 45% of the 1953-2003 variation in the average scholastic achievement test (SAT) verbal score, and 65% of the 1953-2003 variation in the average SAT math score. These temporal relationships are characterized by best-fit time lags (highest R(2) and t-value ...

Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary

The distinction between two kinds of qualities, primary and secondary, is one of the core doctrines of Scholastic natural philosophy. Far from being an invention of the modern era, it is something to which any student of Aristotelian philosophy—which is to say anyone who studied philosophy in a European university up until the eighteenth century—would have been introduced at a tender age. The d...