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The Advanced examination is calibrated at six semester hours, about three hundred hours of work, and about three thousand pages of reading

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q2 i? The Advanced examination is planned to cover six semester hours of a college course and should involve a little more than three hundred hours of work, with mastery of about three thousand pages expected. → A committee of five representing the Association of Teachers of Psychology in Iowa 1911

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A committee of five representing the Association of Teachers of Psychology in Iowa 1911

A committee of five representing the Association of Teachers of Psychology in Iowa. (1911). Preparation for Examinations in Psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/edu

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Definitional planning statement from the PLAN OF STUDY section setting the Advanced examination's workload. The article adds that the student may be expected to master about three thousand pages, while six required texts cover but little more than two thousand pages, implying supplementary reading. No effect size is involved.

"The Advanced examination is planned to cover the equivalent of six semester hours of a college course (the requirement fixed by the State Board in 1907) or one-fifth of a school year, and should involve a little more than three hundred hours of work"

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title The Advanced examination is calibrated at six semester hours, about three hundred hours of work, and about three thousand pages of reading
description The Advanced examination is calibrated at six semester hours, about three hundred hours of work, and about three thousand pages of reading
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evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1911
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