Students in different course groups (B.A., Education, Art and Music) differed in aesthetic judgment types and in test-class-average correlations¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? 90% of B.A. students gave objective judgments versus 70% of Education and 72% of Art and Music students, and Education students alone showed uniformly positive test-class-average correlations. → Sunne 1917

Evidence¶

Sunne 1917¶

Sunne, Dagny. (1917). The Relation of Class Standing to College Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology, VIII(4), 193-211. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071727

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Secondary classification of the 99 freshmen into 47 B.A., 34 Education and 18 Art and Music students; the article reports the quoted percentages and that "The Education students alone get uniform positive correlations between the tests and their class average."

"In the color triangle test 90% of the B.A. group, 70% of the Education group and 72% of the Art and Music group give objective judgments."

Discussion¶

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