Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to find exactly how the individual child grows in mind and body, the Graduate School of Education, with the co-operation of public and private schools in the vicinity, has embarked upon an investigation of the mental and physical development of hundreds of individual schoolboys and schoolgirls. This investigation is expected to occupy twelve years, and is the first of its kind ever undertaken on so large a scale...
...plan of the investigation is to take several hundred children and submit them at intervals to measurements and tests over a period of twelve years, say from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This will give an accurate record of how each individual child is growing mentally and physically throughout that period. Hitherto practically all the information secured by physicians, teachers, and psychologists on the mental and physical growth of children has been based on averages from the measurement of groups, and thus has thrown but little light on the relation between bodily and mental growth...
...repeating these measurements at intervals for twelve years, the investigators of the Graduate School of Education hope to secure complete records of the individual development of a representative group of children throughout their school course, and thus to secure important information on the relation between mental growth and bodily development during childhood...
...data heretofore on the mental and physical growth of children at best has been incomplete because it has been based on measurements made from various "average" groups representing various stages of development. The result has been a flat, one-sided picture. The investigation of the School of Education, involving the careful measuring and testing of hundreds of children over a period of twelve years, will fill in the gaps in the information already at hand and, by following the same groups all the way through, obtain for the first time accurate knowledge of the growth of individuals...
...Fernald, director of the State School for Feebleminded at Waverly will lecture on "Mental Defect as a Health Problem" at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Building A at the Medical School, and Dr. William Healey of the Juvenile Court in Boston will speak on "Delinquency as a Public Health Problem" at 2 o'clock, February 15, at the same place. Both lectures, under the auspices of the School of Public Health, are open to the public...