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The objective of this study was the development of evaluation techniques and the assessment of these techniques when compared with standard procedures of the national Head Start program. Assessments of cognitive behavior, social behavior, and teachers' perceptions--as opposed to aides' perceptions--of children were made. The subjects were 33 children of broad socioeconomic levels. The following conclusions were drawn from the comparative and intercorrelational analyses: (1) a meaningful proportion of the variance in Stanford-Binet performance is related to performance on the "impulsivity measures" and suggests that impulsivity has deleterious effects on children despite the degree of their cognitive ability; (2) findings with Draw-a-Line and Walk-a-Line indicate no relationship between "fast" condition and the Stanford-Binet score; (3) increases in percent work responses are not especially related to increases in Stanford-Binet scores; and (4) teachers' perceptions of children's social adaptiveness is positively correlated with intelligence. Further analyses will be reported later. Future research should concentrate on identifying dimensions of variability and then concentrate on variations in programing for individual children. (DO)

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