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A mental appraisement of an individual is even more dependent upon the adequate training and quality of the examiner than upon the standardization of the tests used

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r? · q1
Currency · newest study 1917 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q1 i? The quality and training of the examiner matters more for valid mental appraisal than the standardization of the tests themselves. → Lewis M. Terman and Clara Harbison Town 1917

Evidence

Lewis M. Terman and Clara Harbison Town 1917

Lewis M. Terman and Clara Harbison Town. (1917). Communications and Discussions, The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org

q1 · i? · theoretical · r?

A symposium communication by a clinical psychologist drawing on ten years of clinical work ('Ten years spent chiefly in making mental inventories'). The article offers this as an expert assertion grounded in experience, with no data or experiment reported for it.

"It seems the part of wisdom and fairness to let it be more generally known that a mental appraisement of an individual is even more dependent upon the adequate training and quality of the ex aminer than upon the standardization of the tests used."

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type claim
id examiner-training-over-test-standardization-for-appraisal
title A mental appraisement of an individual is even more dependent upon the adequate training and quality of the examiner than upon the standardization of the tests used
description A mental appraisement of an individual is even more dependent upon the adequate training and quality of the examiner than upon the standardization of the tests used
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1917
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sources 1 — lewis-m-terman-and-clara-harbison-town-1917

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