Health education and the nutrition class, a report of the Bureau of educational experiments; descriptive and educational sections . ian boys of the same age rangefrom another public school of New York had anaverage reaction time of seconds for the samelist, which is longer than that for the Nuti-itionGroup. Their accuracy score was in compari-son with for the Nutrition Group. This groupof undernourished boys makes fewer errors and hasa quicker reaction time than a group in the same cityhaving somewhat similar home conditions. We donot know, however, how many of the Italians were
Health education and the nutrition class, a report of the Bureau of educational experiments; descriptive and educational sections . ian boys of the same age rangefrom another public school of New York had anaverage reaction time of seconds for the samelist, which is longer than that for the Nuti-itionGroup. Their accuracy score was in compari-son with for the Nutrition Group. This groupof undernourished boys makes fewer errors and hasa quicker reaction time than a group in the same cityhaving somewhat similar home conditions. We donot know, however, how many of the Italians werealso underweight. Ship Test.—In the Ship Test the time scores in-clude so many variables that the average is of littlevalue. Some took 6 minutes and made a very goodscore, others made a score of zero but completed it ina very short time. The average score of coin-cides with the Pintner-Paterson norm of 7 to 8 forsix-year-olds, so the performance of these under-nourished boys is considered normal. The lowscores correlate more closely with Intelligence Quo-tients than with index of laidernourishment. 184 HEALTH EDUCATION. MENTAL MEASUREMENTS 185 Substitution.—In the Substitution Test no normsare available for half sheets, which seemed to be adesirable length to give these young children in com-bination with the other tests used during the periodof time available for testing. There was wide varia-tion in the time scores. The last line used as amemory test for 31 individuals was free from errorsin 23 cases, or of the group; 3 or made1 error; 2 or made 2 errors; 2 or made4 errors; 1 or made 5 errors. We find that under conditions of work demandingmaximal attention for the best records as to speedand accuracy, appreciation of relationships, and thecontrol of associational responses, the group selectedas undernourished make better scores than the Con-trol Group, They also show greater improvementin reducing the amount of time required for repeatedper
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