Travis, examining 128 University of Pennsylvania students, concluded the Binet prose-passage reproduction tests have no value for group application and should be eliminated for ages fifteen and over unless given under standard Binet conditions.¶

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q2 i? In a study of 128 students (67 men, 59 women) at the University of Pennsylvania, Travis concluded the two Binet prose-passage reproduction tests have no value for group application and should be eliminated for ages fifteen and over unless given under standard Binet conditions. → Kohs 1917

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Kohs 1917¶

Kohs, Samuel C. (1917). An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature on the Binet-Simon Scale (1913-1917), Part IV. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Annotated+Bibliography+of+Recent+Literature+on+the+Binet-Simon+Scale%22+Kohs

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Entry 400 annotates Travis's 1915 Psychological Clinic study of two Binet tests, in which 128 students, 67 men and 59 women, at the University of Pennsylvania reproduced short prose passages; he concluded the tests "have no value for group application." No statistics are printed.

"Concludes that these tests have no value for group application, and should therefore be eliminated as tests "for fifteen years and over, unless given under standard Binet conditions.""

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Related Claims¶

• The amount of advance credit earned on the Binet scale depends on the extent of testing, not the grade of intelligence of the pupils — related