School surveys with the scale found clear-cut group differences between sections, schools, and institutional children¶

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q2 i? In surveys already made, clear-cut differences were found between fast and slow sections, between schools in pupil ability and in adjustment to capacities, and between average school children and children in institutions. → Pressey 1920

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Pressey 1920¶

Pressey, S. L. (1920). A Brief Group Scale of Intelligence for Use in School Surveys. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/journal/edu

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The author's interpretation of findings from the surveys conducted with the scale across several Indiana cities; no effect sizes or statistics are printed for these group differences.

"In the surveys already made, clear-cut differences have been found between "fast" and "slow" sections, between schools, both in the ability of the children attending them and in the amount of adjustment made by the schools to the capacities of the children, and between average school children and children in institutions."

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