The Relationship of Certain Factors to Failure Among Superior Pupils in a Junior High School for Negroes

This investigation was undertaken for the purpose of throwing some light on the causes or predictive associates of failure among superior pupils in junior high school. In the Northeast Junior High School of Kansas City, Kansas, a school for Negroes, there were located twenty-seven cases, 18 boys and 9 girls, with I.Q.'s, computed from Otis Self-Administering Tests of Mental Ability, of 110 or above, whose work on the average was unsatisfactory-failing or no higher than the lowest passing mark. For purposes of comparison, two other groups of superior pupils were employed: (1) a group of 27 pupils eminently successful in their school work, and (2) a group of 92 pupils whose work was average or better. Of the total group of 146 pupils of I.Q. of more than 110, 90 or 62 per cent were girls and 56 or 38 per cent were boys. They were distributed by grade as follows, 7th grade, 54; 8th grade, 38; 9th grade, 54

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