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Thlose IQ Tests -Ar. They Any Good? There la a growiýng suspicion_ .moueg Ameriean educators andi $*renits that w have gone to ei ixreen aur f aith in or- ganized testing,. F r o ni early gohool years ta college entrance, pr children and young peopfle fe mad-e ta face batteries of tests J'tare supposed ta mneasure their Intelligence, their abilitieq, er achievemyenits, and their possible success. 0f urgent inter- atherefore-, is the vigorous arti- ,tle by John Kard Lagemiann in ,he December PTA Magazine, iltet's Abolish IQ Tests." The subjecc is f rankly contra- vyersial. The PTA Magazine- in- vites "Opinions by Post." The De- cemrber Reader's Digest is carry- ing a condensation under the titie, "Lets Look Again at Those 1Q Tests."' There is bound ta be a wlde reaction. Outside the United States, we are told, only Great Britain mnakes extensive use of standard- Ized tests ta grade and classify talent. "MVany counitries, includý- lng the Soviet Unioni," Mr. Lag- mann says,"he considered them and rejected themn corn- pletely."ý It is comnmon knowledge among educators that children who test with an average or low IQ get different educational tiretmient t hrou g haou t their gchool years f ram those who test ihlgh. "A 10w IQ may exclude himi troma the opportunity ta discover *nd develop his talents," the arti- oie says. "Hle may score 10w ,.-be- cause he can't read well, and thon be hamnpered in his chances te learn ta read well because he bas a low IQ. Scores that are designed 'average' mray give himn *rn image of imself as an uin- rising persan, and he may eot accordingly." The article !Iis and discussesý jore of the "f un d amentai de- Unreliabilit-: Scores vary er- eatica1ly, within a six-month pe- rjo4 a chid has scored as gifted oktd m-erely average, Inaccuracy: A whole classroom takes themn M4 once. They are short, about hiali an hour, and contain oniy a 11mtted niumber of short ques- tins. Therefare, the answers te a few of these, according ta the axrticle, mnake a big difference in the score; yet muvch depends on a 4hiIl'.s motivation whenî taking iii. test Statistics have indicated that IQ tests favar chiildren. of wvel! èducated parents. For examnple, Wa prosperous suburbia, where a ftL/es u lett h aok, B i0ugÂ.: W..ThI4 I. Momday, -nt suldayll" child's home evrnetex- poses him ta books, magazi;nes, conversation, and cultural intier- ests, one out of four children scores above 125, while L) Poor neighborhoods only one, out of 16 docaý so. Tiiou.sands-.of brighit youngstcrs. whose home evrn ment is cuflturally negativo are deprived by 10w IQ ratings of a chtance at college and ecolege schaolarsips, w r it es Millicant Taylor in the Christian. Science Monitor. Cited as the worstwrn this mass tosting does to children - and seriaus fat.ý the future of the nation - is that "tests favar tht confarmist over the creative mmýid." Mr. Lagem.-ann gives thia examnple: "When asked ta define hanguago, a high IQ student wroto, 'It la a form or mianner of expression.' A high - creativity student wrote, 'Language la the window thnough which we se. exponience,' an answer that would neyer get by li a standardized test." "What an aptitude test (and this includes IQ tests) doos men- sure is the quality of a pupil'8 performance in a numiber af mental tasks," says Dr. Henry S. Dyer a! the Educational Testing Ser-vice. The score "tells hdw woll ho can cape with tasks 1k. those on the test at the time h. takes the test, an-d iitetols roth- lng mnore.>' A gnoup ai top scientists wcre asked ta evahuate a list, of 28 specifice mental abilities and rank thefr, accarding ta their impor- tance in scientific research. Their number anc was "the ability ta abondon canventional problem- solving. methods that have bo- came unworkable and to think of an original solution.4? (An cx- ample of this was ta put the oye in the point of. a needie and mnake possible the invention of the sew- ing machine.) This ability ia not mreasured by IQ tests, Another was the ability ta recognize pra- leins - once def ined ýby Einstein as "inability to accept thè ob- Siiliar to IQ tests are the ap- titude tests, most of which art o! the "multiple -choicee" type- that is, the child mnust choose ont o>f several proifered "solutions." If ho does not get a certain num- ber of ",right" answers it is as- sumed th7he will nat do Weil Therê , f much more iii the article,,.than, I have space ta share hée4.A visit ta your pub- lic librarY,-_ishoo! to rea4 it li full in theP.A Magazine cari bo rewarding. The Reader's -Digest's able condensation is, also warth yotir perusal. A final quote on the dot ecte Mr, Lagemnann secs in standard- izedi IQ tests: ". . . they favor anc limited kind of intelligence - thre ki nd 'that is fast -and'sharp' and knowrs the correct answers- while they discriminate against, such central aspects of -intelli- gence-,as, imagination, creativity, insight." Q. I have been- lnvited toaa weddi3lg anO reception, and the7 bride says 1 can bring my boy friend with me. Should ho send a glft, or would it ho proper for hlm te share the cost of mine? A. Ho is not expected, to do' either of these. GOES APTER CAMERAM AN FOLLOWING TRIAL -- Dr. Albert L. WVe;ner, 44 yearold osteopathic physicien com.- victed oni 12 counts of manslaughter mn the hepatitis, deetl's of a dozen patients, lunges at photogrephors! in Coemdeq% N-1,J. At u le eft la W.iri.r's wife, Helen. TINY CKkPEL-This sidewcJk in FaImouth, Cornwall, Eng- land, squeezes through a iarrow passage under the famous Chapel of Gyltyngdune, which was buit in the i 9th century. As you know, every year On the Saturday before Chrîstmnas, the National Hockey League, puts on, what is known as "Young Canada Nig.ýt." To us it points up the changes that have taken place over a period of years. When w. first started listéning to hockey broadcasts it was from a second-hand battery radio, with Poster Hewitt callingý ther gaine. Then came the year when, as a special attraction for Young Canada Night, Faster had has young soncorne to the mi- crophone and take part- in the broadcastIý Bill ýwas then about ,ight years old. Obviously Bill took a genuine lnterest in hock- Protect the furniture and de- light youngsters with this gay cushion that's perfect for TV! Use thnifty scraps - the brigliter, the 'better- for this plumply padded TV turtie. Pat- tern 504: pattern pie-ces; direc- tions for 15½xl9-iich cush-ion. Serai TITY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepteil, uise posýtal note for salety) fan, this pattern to Laura, Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Zigchtec-nth St,, New Toronto, Ont Pnint plainly PATTERN NUMBER, y7oun NAME anid AD- DRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over $00 designs in aur new, 1962 ÎNeedîccraf t Catalog - biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages o! fash- Ions, home accessonies ta knit, crûc1iet, sew', wcavc, embroider, quilt. Sùe jumba-knit hitg, cloths, aýpreads, toy, linons, afghans plus Lree patterns. Send 25(. v Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, Thoera is no sales' t« on the patterns. ey sa the time came when ho alsobecame an announcer for theî hockey games, nat repiacing his father but supplementing his a<c- tivities. That is ta say Foster broadcasts by radio and Bill on television. This ast Young Can- ada Night marked another mile- stone in the Hewitt family. Bl' yaung-son also took part in the broa-dcast just as we remnember his father- did mnany ycars ago. No doubt it was a proudl night for Grandpa Hewitt, and most certainly a famnily record in con- tinuotus -broadcastin g. That brings back ta mmid the early d'ays of radio. I remember, back on the farm, when we had aur first radio. It was a big cumbersome af fair, and of course, it ,was battery oper ated. It had _a numnber of knobs that had to be adjusted every time we turn- ed it on and then often it would sqeland whine until somte- times we couldn't hear any pro- gram at al, Worse stili were the timnes when the battery, wýithout any warning, would ive up the ghost. TIhat necessitated a trip ta towfl to get the, battery re- charged - andidn winter a trip totown oftem i ieant going in by horse and cutter, or teami and sleighs. A few years later wre got a smjaller, more compact radia. Wc did get better recep- tion but we stili hiad ta depend on batteries as it was long before the time that we hiad hydro li- stalled at the farmý. What. a difference electric Pow- er makes in a home! Almaost at once we gat an electric raio-- no batteries to worry about, just occasionally a tube wouhd burni out and hAd to be replaced. Now radio and televisian sets have been imnproved to such an extent that anily occasionally do they give any mechanical trouble. Which is marvellous when you think of the use - and abuse - they receive, with chilidren turn.. inig the controls on and off, this way and that, -with bath radio and television. What would hap- Pen if' y0ungsters taday were f aced with the samie conditions that were prevalent ini the 'thir-. tics -no television and radios ISSUE 2 - 16 in only a few homesýý? Who is ta Say which periad enücourages the botter personalities. Ceýrtaitnly children a generatian agIo were more creative - less dependent upon commercial tays and en- tertain-ment, What wauld mnothers of pre- schoolers do today without TV? In dozens of homnes you hear the, same story - "Corne on, now - 1 eat up your breakfast then.you cani watch 'Popeye'." Telev1sioný tg young mothers is as good a s a pant-tinie baby-sitter. Well now, for you people who read this columrn, Christmnas 1u now a thing of the past. We, on, the other hand, have another twio days to go before the big day arriveg. For you it is a tiiiefor *catching your broath again, Y'ou can riow collcct ail thase lovely Christmas cards, put themn into a box until the beginning of next Decembor. Then you will bring themn out once more and go through the samo ritual ail over again. That is all part of Christ- mas. I was talking ta Daughter tlhis morning and she said they got their greatest kick out af taking the boys to do their own. shop- ping. They each took money fromn their penny 'baxes ta buy presents for Grandpa and Grand- ma and for their cousins, Ross and Cedric. Dec took thern ta Woolworths' and they were al- lowed to choose the presents thiemrselves. Pave had two dol- lars to spend but what he picked out came to just over four dol- lars sa he went aftcr his Dad tri make up the difference! Hîis father allowed hünm an extra dol- lar but alsa insisted that somfe of the things must b. put back on the shelves. Naturally that was ta make him understand the value of money. We generally thinkthat chil- dren have taa manly presenta and take tao much for gran-ted. But apparently, given the opportun- ity, they get just as much, pleas- ure out of. giving as rcceiving. And that is something that should be encouraged. Well, Happy New Year, cvery- body. Sec you again ncxt woek, 'Comino Up -PLAID Trading Stompi The staid Great Atlantic& Pacific Tea Co. has long been known ta its U.S. enplOYees as "Graxidma." But ever since 1910, Grandma hias been carr ying on ai sporadic flirtation with a iraffish institution which, li sabener mo- ments, she denounces as a crea- ture of the devil-aor maybc the d'evil himiself: The trading stamp. it was ta be, expected, then, that wher, Graxidma threw her lace cap aven the windmill there would be only embarrassed si: once fnom A&P headquarters- in New York City. But the chain's Albany district-stnetching fram Poughkeepsie, N.Y., north ta the Canadian border-was anything but quiet.' In enà-of-the-world type, ncwspaper ads have carried the Word of Grandma's surren- den: A&P stores, which have bcen cautiously giving stamps for a monith, offered double stampa for four straight, days in a' spread- ing stamp wan with rival store chains. In a climatic salvo, the chain held drawings in-,Albaniy, gave away 10 million st amps. The fîrst prize: Some 4 million ýstaMPS, worth an estimated Only last year, A&P chairman Ralph W. BurgIer -as saying: "The consuming puiblic realizes there-la no 'pie in the sky' The expenise of such promnotions, ultim-ately mnust be added to the cost of doing busiiinesýs." mnonth, thei ads read: -, promnises you sanie low., 1W prices, some tremendous cash saving-s, samne hig,,h quality-and now Yeu get Plaid Stamps, tooý." If there was embarrassment in New 7York ,City, tihere was joy in the hinterlands, Mrs, Hariry Cný'e, the 65-yearý-olcd Chatham, N Y., grandmnother wýha won the top drawing prizeý, reported she wvas "nurnb" wiA:th jaylas;t month. Industry sources said A&cP plans to give stamnps in boston "'within rnonthis" and bit New' York City by spring. And with Grandm-a's surrend- er, the devil turned demure. 4"Wise men change their minds," said Eli M. Strassnier, president of the Trading Stamp Institut£ of Amnerica, "A&P's entry is.., a compliment ta the trading- stamrp industry."1 Soft and Slimming A touch of the unusual - tiny gathers sof ton a face - framixil collar. 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