Children who did well on the Binet did well in school work demanding abstract thinking such as arithmetic and language, whereas advanced standing on performance tests did not predict this¶

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q1 i? In the author's public-school studies, high Binet performance accompanied success in schoolwork demanding abstract thinking (arithmetic, language), while high performance-test standing did not at all imply such success. → E. B. Skaggs 1920

Evidence¶

E. B. Skaggs 1920¶

E. B. Skaggs. (1920). A Comparison of Results Obtained by the Terman Binet Tests and the Healy Picture Completion Test. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0076088

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An observational report from the author's own series of public-school studies using the Picture Completion and other performance tests alongside the Binet. The article states the noted pattern but prints no coefficients, sample counts, or tests.

"it was noted that the children who did well on the Binet tests, did well in school work demanding abstract thinking, as arithmetic, and language, whereas this did not at all follow when the child stood even much advanced by the performance tests."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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