The National Intelligence Tests, prepared by a committee under National Research Council auspices with $25,000 from the General Education Board, are probably the most reliable group tests¶
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q1 i? The National Intelligence Tests Scales A and B, prepared by a committee of five psychologists and furnished in five equivalent forms per scale, are described as probably the most reliable of any group tests of intelligence. → Bell 1921
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Bell 1921¶
Bell, J. C. (1921). Group tests of intelligence: An annotated list. Journal of Educational Psychology, 12(2), 103–108. doi:10.1037/h0073682
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Annotated-list entry for the National Intelligence Tests, outgrowths of the Army Intelligence Tests prepared under National Research Council auspices by a committee of Haggerty, Terman, Thorndike, Whipple and Yerkes (chairman), for grades 3 to 8. The reliability judgment is the author's evaluative comment, not a printed coefficient.
"The General Education Board appropriated $25,000 for the standardization of these tests, and they are probably the most reliable of any group tests of intelligence. Each scale is furnished in five forms of equivalent difficulty."
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Related Claims¶
- A National Research Council committee secured a $25,000 General Education Board grant to develop intelligence tests for school children — related
- The NRC committee trialed some twenty tests on five thousand children and produced two series of group intelligence tests of high reliability — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- The reviewer finds the tests-and-scales book's intelligence-measurement chapter useful but its least satisfactory part, criticizing the Stanford-Binet treatment and the omission of the National Tests — related
- Whipple's Group Test for Grammar Grades is only tentatively standardized and its administration difficulties make its use somewhat unsatisfactory — related
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The National Intelligence Tests, prepared by a committee under National Research Council auspices with $25,000 from the General Education Board, are probably the most reliable group tests |
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