DEFICIENT IN MIND
LARGE NUMBER OF BOYS NEW SOUTH WALES TEST By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. SYDNEY, Friday. The annual report of the Department of Education shows that the expenditure for the year was £4,559,000, the highest for any year in the history of the department. There were 9,559 teachers under the department, a strength which was more satisfactory than it had been for a considerable time. The effective enrolment was 319,835. During the period 1924-25 a mental test was carried out on 1,912 schoolboys. Of the total, 22 per cent, were regarded as having an intelligent quotient of 100 or more, and 361 per cent., 90 to 100, which gives a total of SSI per cent, of normal intelligence. A total of 24.7 per cent, had a quotient of SO to 90 and they were regarded as retarded 6 per cent, had a quotient of 75 to 85, a half per cent, had a quotient of 70 to 75, and 5 per cent, had a quotient under 70. It was considered, therefore, that about 10 per cent, were definitely or probably feeble-minded and about 15 per cent, fit for education at a suitable school.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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