The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment of adaptive behavior in a sample population of Decatur County, Georgia, elementary school students and to compare the results with those used to establish norms on the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA). / Subjects of this study included 100 students from Decatur County, Georgia, elementary schools which were drawn at random and were considered representative of the elementary age school population in terms of race, sex, and socioeconomic status. / The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) was individually administered to the students drawn and the parents of the students tested were interviewed using the Sociocultural Scales and the Adaptive Behavior Inventory for Children (ABIC) questions of the SOMPA. / Comparative studies of the sociocultural backgrounds, performance on tests of intelligence, and performance on a measure of adaptive behaviors were conducted. Differences in means and standard deviations were found for white and black students between the Decatur County sample and the California standardization sample. / The results of the study indicated that the average white and black family in Decatur County have a lower urban acculturation level than the average California family in each ethnic group. Both white and black students in Decatur County also scored lower on the WISC-R and the ABIC than those in the California sample. / These differences indicate that research on representative samples of populations in various regions is necessary in order to make accurate predictions concerning student learning potential. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: A, page: 3985. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74286 |
| Contributors | HARRELL, PATRICIA ANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 87 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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