Within a grade, younger pupils score higher on the Alertness Quotient than older pupils¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1917 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In the one large city system, age-grade analysis showed a general downward trend of alertness quotients as pupils' age within the same grade increased, for both boys and girls and on both tests. → L. W. Sackett 1917

Evidence¶

L. W. Sackett 1917¶

L. W. Sackett. (1917). Tests for Mental Alertness. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Tests+for+Mental+Alertness%22

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Age-grade scores for one large city (table VI) were inspected by age within each grade; the article describes the pattern as a "general downward trend" and offers no statistical test or effect size.

"Excluding the roughness of the curve at the extremities where the number of cases is small, there is a general downward trend of the magnitude of A.Q.'s as the older pupils in the same grade are tested."

Discussion¶

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