ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S MENTAL AND SOCIAL ABILITIES

这项研究的目的是开发新材料，一个项目 基于课程化的频谱现场测评组合 光谱计划，由哈佛大学学院和 教育和艾略特-皮尔逊儿童研究部 塔夫茨大学。光谱计划在美国是独一无二的 因为它开发的课程远远超出了智商到 评估广泛的学龄前儿童的兴趣和 能力。“光谱计划”的“多元智能” 评估程序包括自然科学能力，身体- 动觉技能，音乐天赋，独特的工作风格， 以及语言和逻辑数学能力。因为 这个年龄段智力的传统心理测量方法 从很小范围的精神能力中抽取样本，这样的测量是 在他们提供的关于可能的 先行变量的相关性，也受到 他们成功预测的结果变量。相比之下， 项目频谱现场评估电池样本来自广泛的 学龄前儿童认知能力和兴趣的范围 从而提供了更丰富的机会来回应许多理论 和围绕核心问题的务实问题 智力发展的稳定性。

The purpose of this research is to develop new materials, a Project Spectrum Field Assessment Battery, based on the curriculum-oriented Project Spectrum, organized between the Harvard University School of Education and the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study at Tufts University. Project Spectrum is unique in the United States for its development of a curriculum that goes far beyond IQ to assess a wide range of preschool children's interests and capabilities. The 'multiple intelligences' that Project Spectrum's procedures assess include natural science ability, bodily- kinesthetic skills, musical talents, distinctive styles of work, as well as linguistic and logical-mathematical abilities. Because traditional psychometric measures of intelligence at this age sample from a narrow range of mental abilities, such measures are limited in terms of the information they provide about the possible relevance of antecedent variables and are also restricted in terms of the outcome variables they successfully predict. In contrast, the Project Spectrum Field Assessment Battery samples from a wide range of preschoolers' cognitive capabilities and interests and thus affords richer opportunities to respond to many theoretical and pragmatic questions that surround the central issue of stability in mental development.