The Backward Child--I

The Backward Child

edition shows how necessary this book of Sir Cyril Burt is to those who teach and have dealings with the welfare of sub-normal children. Most psychologists appear to be detached from the physical side of the lives of their patients. Burt, however, from the time of his early appointment as Psychologist to the London County Council, links up the child's mental development with the physical and en...

The Backward Child

The causal factors of backwardness are submitted to close statistical treatment, with results which may distress too optimistic social theorists. ' The causes of backwardness prove unexpectedly numerous and varied : and in most cases not one cause, but several, are at work.' (p. 564.) But the chief cause of backwardness is naturally dull intelligence, a condition beyond remedy. Most teachers an...

The Education of the Backward Child

Report of Backward Child Sub-Committee

Qualitative, Interactive, Backward Analysis of i* Models

Deriving the full benefits of i* models requires analysis and iteration beyond initial construction. This work outlines a procedure which allows backwards (top-down), qualitative, interactive analysis of i* models using SAT solving techniques. This approach expands on work in goal model reasoning, expressing i* models and qualitative evaluation values as a SAT problem. The nature of the interac...