Excerpt from Ninth Annual Conference on Educational Measurements: Held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, 1922

This is the study of a boy in the third grade who is nine years and nine months old. His school attendance has been quite regular. He has never failed promotion, but has never done as good work as his teachers thought he was capable of doing. The boy was apparently of average intelligence, for he was responsive, able to meet new situations fairly satisfactorily, and capable of concentrating on whatever task was put before him. His health was good, except that at times he complained of his eyes. The school nurse and doctor said one eye was slightly defective, but not enough to handicap him in read ing. The experimenters, however, are inclined to believe that the defect may be more serious and that the boy needs another examination by a specialist. How far this has affected his reading we at present are not able to say.

In order to justify our conclusions as to the subject's intelligence he was given the Stanford Revision Of the Binet - Simon Intelligence Test. His intelligence quotient was 97. The tests, which involved reading ability, brought down the score.

The next step was to analyze the special reading difficulties, if there were such. The first test used for this purpose was Gray's Oral Reading Test.

The boy repeated often, was careless with endings, and Often guessed at words from the context. The fact that most of the repetitions occurred at the beginning of the line led the experimenters to believe that habits of eye movements, especially those in making the return sweep, had not been firmly established. Later-observations showed, however, that some of the repetitions were due to carelessness and inability to group prop erly. The tests also showed that the subject lacked in ability to attack new words. The test results showed that. The subject is below the aver age.

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