The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was administered
to twenty-one females and twenty-seven males seven years of age. Eight
of these Indian and Metis females and nine of the males attended a rural
school, while seven females and eight males attended classes in residential
schools. The remaining six females and ten males went to school in a
city.
Profiles of differential abilities were made for each sex and
school type. When the sub-tests were averaged according to the value of
the mean scaled scores obtained by the total group, the ascending order
was auditory association, grammatic closure, verbal expression, auditory
closure, auditory decode, visual association, verbal decode, auditory
memory, manual expression, visual closure, sound blending and visual
memory. No significant differences existed between the males and the
females. The urban school students performance on the Illinois Test of
Psycholinguistic Abilities was superior to the performance of rural and
residential school students