Pupils designated accelerated by their teachers, or selected by age-grade criteria, score above grade standards on the alertness tests¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1917 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teacher-designated accelerated pupils made a superior showing, with only one grade record below standard; age-grade selection of exceptional pupils likewise showed the tests differentiating accelerated and retarded groups. → L. W. Sackett 1917 q2 i? When pupils were instead selected as retarded or accelerated by being more than one year off the normal age for their grade, the tests still separated the groups apart from teacher judgment. → L. W. Sackett 1917 (2)

Evidence¶

L. W. Sackett 1917¶

L. W. Sackett. (1917). Tests for Mental Alertness. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Tests+for+Mental+Alertness%22

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Table XIII compares teacher-designated accelerated pupils against grade-and-sex standards; the article reports that "those whom the teachers consider accelerated make a superior showing in the tests," with no effect size printed.

"In Table XIII, the report on accelerated pupils, only one grade record is below the standard for the group."

L. W. Sackett 1917 (2)¶

L. W. Sackett. (1917). Tests for Mental Alertness. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Tests+for+Mental+Alertness%22

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Re-analysis selecting pupils by age-grade criteria (more than one year off normal age, tables XII and XIV) replicated the differentiation; the article counts exceptions descriptively, printing no effect size.

"The numbers are much more representative than those above and still show that, apart from the judgment of the teacher as to the retardation or acceleration of the child, the tests will differentiate them into accelerated and retarded groups."

Discussion¶

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