INTELLIGENCE TESTS.
Education In New South
Wales.
RECORD EXPENDITUS,::.
(Received 12 noon.) SYDNEY, this da y. The annual report of the Department of Education shows that the expenditure for the year was £4.559,000, the highest T«>r anv year in the history of the Department. There were 95-59 teachers under the Department and the strength was more satisfactory than it has been for a considerable t:me. Effective enrolment was 319,535 during the period. In 1924-25 the mental test was carried out on 1912 schoolboys, and of that total 22 per cent were regarded as having an intelligent quotient of 100 or'more. 3G} per cent 90 to 100, or a total of oSi per cent of normal intelligence.
A quotient of SO to 00 was shown in 24.7 per cent regarded as retard six l>er cent had a quotient of 75 to 85 5i per cent .0 to 75, and a per cent under
It was considered, therefore, that nrnWii ? el .ICent1 Cent were definitelv or Sb 2 feeble-minded, and about 15 Sod ®d«*tion at a suitable
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 273, 18 November 1927, Page 7
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