Head Start Screening: Effectiveness of a Teacher-Administered Battery

This study has concerned a number of issues for 153 Head Start children. The principal conclusions are: (1) these children are significantly more deficient in the perceptual-motor areas, race notwithstanding, than in either the areas of mental ability or auditory memory, (2) the battery has effectively selected children for individual psychological evaluation insofar as measured intelligence is the criterion, (3) even within the scope of a single program, wide community differences may exist, and as a consequence, no single set of training procedures is likely to be adequate for all communities, (4) ethnic differences in the various skill areas were significant.