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Use of the meeting street school screening test and the myklebust pupil rating scale with first‐grade black urban children
Author(s) -
Fedebici Louise,
Sims Hayward,
Bashian Audrey
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197610)13:4<386::aid-pits2310130404>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - psychology , rating scale , population , test (biology) , generalization , pupil , demography , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , paleontology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience , sociology , biology
This study hypothesized that: (a) the MSSST would identify the same proportion (15%) of high‐risk children in a group (N = 580) of first‐grade urban black children as estimated for the general population; (b) the Myklebust would discriminate between high‐risk (N = 22) and low‐risk (N = 21) children within the minority group using the MSSST as the criterion variable; and (c) Myklebust ratings for the high‐risk and low‐risk young minority children would approximate ratings reported elsewhere for older white suburban samples of high‐risk and low‐risk children. All three hypotheses were confirmed. The MSSST may be appropriate for minority group children. The small number of teachers (N = 6) participating in the Myklebust ratings makes generalization about it hazardous without further replication.