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... employed this technique to study the psychological effects of fatigue , hunger , and drugs and concluded that all these agents in- crease the relative frequency of superficial associations . Sommer ( 1894 ) , also writing during the ...
... employed this technique to study the psychological effects of fatigue , hunger , and drugs and concluded that all these agents in- crease the relative frequency of superficial associations . Sommer ( 1894 ) , also writing during the ...
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... employed for operational purposes on the other . Before the test is ready for use , its validity must be estab- lished on a representative sample of subjects . The scores of these persons are not themselves employed for operational ...
... employed for operational purposes on the other . Before the test is ready for use , its validity must be estab- lished on a representative sample of subjects . The scores of these persons are not themselves employed for operational ...
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... employed in finding the validities reported in test manuals , however , fall into a few common categories . Among the criteria most frequently employed in validating intelligence tests is some index of academic achievement . It is for ...
... employed in finding the validities reported in test manuals , however , fall into a few common categories . Among the criteria most frequently employed in validating intelligence tests is some index of academic achievement . It is for ...
Contents
FUNCTIONS AND ORIGINS | 3 |
Cattell and the early mental tests | 9 |
Standardized achievement tests | 16 |
Copyright | |
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