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A STUDY INVESTIGATED THE RELATION BETWEEN PERFORMANCE ON LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS AND LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE. PERFORMANCE WAS MEASURED ACROSS A SERIES OF 10 LEARNING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS PRESENTED TO SUBJECTS IN A SERIES OF SIX FILMS SHOWN IN A CLASSROOM. THE SUBJECTS WERE 275 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND 109 FOURTH GRADERS CLASSIFIED AS BRIGHT, NORMAL, OR DULL. THE BRIGHT STUDENTS WERE UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS AND THE DULL STUDENTS LOWER-MIDDLE OR LOWER CLASS. NO HYPOTHESES WERE PUT FORWARD, BUT THE TASKS WERE CONSTRUCTED TO REQUIRE A NUMBER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT BRIGHTER STUDENTS OUTSCORED THEIR AGE PEERS IN ALL TASKS. COMPARISON BETWEEN DULL SEVENTH GRADERS AND BRIGHT FOURTH GRADERS SHOWED WIDE VARIATION IN ABILITIES. THE DULL SEVENTH GRADERS SHOWED EXTREMELY POOR PERFORMANCE ON THE ANAGRAMS AND VERBAL MEMORY TASKS. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE TESTING SITUATION INDUCED THE VERY LOW SCORES IN THIS GROUP. TASK INTERCORRELATIONS FOR EACH GROUP OF SUBJECTS WERE COMPUTED. (DK)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert