The editor predicts NRC group tests will make intelligence testing a routine school measure and open the way for adjusting school work to pupil needs¶

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q1 i? The editor predicts the National Research Council tests will make intelligence testing a routine measure in schools, serving as an entering wedge for studies of pupils' abilities and adjustment of school work to pupil needs. → Bell 1919

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Bell 1919¶

Bell, J. C. (1919). Editorial: The National Research Council. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume X, No. 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Educational_Psychology

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This is the editor's forward-looking prediction (type e), offered with no evidence or argument beyond the throughput advantage already described. It anticipates routine intelligence testing and subsequent "radical adjustment of school work to meet the needs of pupils."

"We may confidently expect, therefore, that the National Research Council tests will make intelligence testing a routine measure in the schools, and this will be the entering wedge for other studies of pupils' abilities and attainments, and for a radical adjustment of school work to meet the needs of pupils."

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