Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Deficiency and Delinquency, by James Burt Miner
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Educational Psychology Monographs
This volume, which is No. 21 in the Series, was
edited by J. Carleton Bell
JAMES BURT MINER, LL.B., PH.D.
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; sometime lecturer at the school for teachers of special classes, Minnesota State School for the Feeble-Minded
BALTIMORE
WARWICK & YORK, Inc.
1918
Copyright, 1918
James Burt Miner
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II. THE FUNCTIONS OF A SCALE IN DIAGNOSIS
CHAPTER III. THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION OF INTELLECTUAL DEFICIENCY
CHAPTER IV. WHAT PERCENTAGE IS FEEBLE-MINDED
CHAPTER V. ADAPTING THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION TO THE BINET SCALE
CHAPTER VI. DELINQUENTS TESTING DEFICIENT
CHAPTER VII. CHECKING THE BINET DIAGNOSIS BY OTHER METHODS
CHAPTER VIII. SCHOOL RETARDATION AMONG DELINQUENTS
CHAPTER IX. COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOL TEST AND THE BINET TEST
CHAPTER X. BAD SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY
CHAPTER XI. DEFICIENCY AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY
CHAPTER XII. SUMMARY AND SUGGESTIONS
PART TWO THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
CHAPTER XIII. THE THEORY OF THE MEASUREMENT OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XIV. QUANTITATIVE DEFINITIONS OF THE BORDERLINE
OTHER REFERENCES CITED
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
INDEX
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
