Reading-test time scores correlate equivocally with academic marks, unlike raw association time¶
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q3 i? Time of reading correlates -.14 with S. L. A. marks but positive .24 with medical school marks, while omnibus raw time gives positive correlations of .39 and .51 with S. L. A. and medical school marks. → Haggerty 1918
Evidence¶
Haggerty 1918¶
Haggerty, M. E. (1918). Tests of applicants for admission to University of Minnesota Medical School. Journal of Educational Psychology, 9(5), 278–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071405
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Correlational analysis of the same applicant cohort. The article reports the reading-time correlations as "—14 and with medical school marks it is positive .24" and concludes time consumed on the difficult reading scale is no indication of ability.
"With the S. L. A. marks it is —14 and with medical school marks it is positive .24. From this it would seem that in a test as difficult as the reading scale the time consumed is no indication of ability."
Haggerty 1918 (2)¶
Haggerty, M. E. (1918). Tests of applicants for admission to University of Minnesota Medical School. Journal of Educational Psychology, 9(5), 278–286. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0071405
q3 · i? · associational · r1
Same correlational analysis, omnibus raw-time scores. The article prints positive correlations of ".39 and .51 with S. L. A. and medical school marks, .68 and .46 with the 15 and 14 credit student's marks and .41 with the quality of reading."
"This was not true of the association test where the "raw time" scores gave positive correlations of .39 and .51 with S. L. A. and medical school marks, .68 and .46 with the 15 and 14 credit student's marks and .41 with the quality of reading."
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Related Claims¶
- Combined weighted-time and reading-quality scores correlate substantially with first-semester medical school marks — related
- The omnibus and reading tests correlate .34, indicating they measure partly the same and partly different functions — related
- The mental tests were a better indication of medical school ability than the applicants' prior academic records — related
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Reading-test time scores correlate equivocally with academic marks, unlike raw association time |
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Reading-test time scores correlate equivocally with academic marks, unlike raw association time |
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1918 |
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