IES Arrow-Dot Performance in Two Montessori Preschools

Abstract

Preschool children attending two Montessori schools (26 boys, 23 girls at School A; 33 boys, 33 girls at School B) were administered the IES Arrow-Dot Test along with several other psychological tests in order to establish preliminary preschool norms and to test the hypothesis that I-scores would decline, while E- and S-scores would rise over ages 3 to 6. The data supported the hypothesis; however, there were clear differences between the two schools which indicated that much more than age and IQ were determining the level and pattern of the scores.

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Baldwin

A. L.

Theories of child development. New York: Wiley, 1967.

Bortner

The IES Test and a performance measure of intelligence. Percept. mot. Skills, 1966, 22, 171–175.

Dombrose

L. A.

, & Slobin

M. S.

The IES Test. Percept. mot. Skills, 1958, 8, 347–389. (Monogr. Suppl. 2-V8)

Dunn

L. M.

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Minneapolis: American Guidance Service, 1965.

Harris

D. B.

Children's drawings as measures of intellectual ability. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.

Herron

W. G.

The IES experiment. Percept. mot. Skills, 1966, 23, 279–290.

Kagan

Moss

H. A.

, & Siegel

I. E.

Psychological significance of styles of conceptualization. In Wright

J. C.

& Kagan

(Eds.), Basic cognitive processes in children. Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Develpm., 1963, 29, No. 2 (Serial No. 86).

McCarthy

J. J.

, & Kirk

S. A.

Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities: experimental edition. Urbana: Univer. of Illinois, 1961.

Miller

, & Swanson

G. E.

The changing American parent. New York: Wiley, 1958.

10.

Rankin

, & Wickoff

The IES Arrow-Dot performance of delinquents and non-delinquents. Percept. mot. Skills, 1964, 18, 207–210.