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Today, close to 200 different tests are in use. They attempt primarily to gauge four abilities: verbal and numerical skills, spatial relations and reasoning. Of the four best-known tests (see chart), the Stanford-Binet is the closest to Binet's original; it takes as long as 1½ hrs., is administered to students individually, and results in a single IQ score. The Wechsler test, also given individually, reports an IQ score for both its verbal and nonverbal sections, as well as an overall figure. The Otis-Lennon, a group test, measures "general intelligence." (Sample question from the version...
...tests that claim merely to measure academic ability. McGraw-Hill, for example, is quietly retiring its old standby, the California Test of Mental Maturity, to avoid "identifying a child with a fixed number." Instead, the firm is promoting a new Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. It reports verbal and nonverbal scores separately, rather than one intelligence quotient-although a mental-age score is still available upon request...
...high school juniors sat down to take a new exam: a Functional Literacy Test ordered by the state legislature to determine whether, as critics had charged, state schools had been graduating as many as 10,000 virtually illiterate seniors each year. The three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
Sadat acknowledged that he had "broken all traditions known to warring states" by visiting Israel, and he loftily forgave "all those who greeted my decision with astonishment or called it a verbal maneuver for public consumption." In an emotional conclusion directed to "the people of Israel," Sadat besought them to "teach your children that what has passed is the end of suffering and what will come is a new life." Said former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, an Arab linguist, when Sadat had finished: "The speech itself was predictable. I could have written it myself. But the Middle East...
...Peter Jennings in Cairo broached the idea to Sadat during an untelevised discussion Monday, Sadat said he would go before the Knesset, if formally invited. That night ABC news showed Jennings paraphrasing his talk with Sadat, and then cut to a taped interview with Begin, who offered Sadat a verbal invitation. "Cronkite took credit for breaking the log jam," groused ABC News and Sports President Roone Arledge. "We talked to Sadat first, to Begin first-we were first all the way." Arledge may be technically correct, but the CBS juxtaposition of Begin and Sadat answering questions by satellite from...