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A four-part test battery measuring tension, perseverance, environmental assimilation, and aggression

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Description

The article describes a battery administered to 87 summoned students to probe factors behind intelligence–scholarship discrepancy. It included "a modification of the Downey will-profile test" in which a phrase was written at normal, rapid, and slow rates to yield tension and perseverance quotients; an abbreviated Rosanoff, Martin, and Rosanoff High Standard Frequency Test scored by agreement with responses of 100 eminent men of science; and three story-based deletion tests for fear, sex, and aggression, with the aggression time divided by total time of the three tests.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Requires subjects able to write at normal, rapid, and slow rates for the Downey-derived quotients
  • Requires the normative response distribution of a group of 100 eminent men of science for scoring the frequency test

Constraints

  • The aggression timing measure's intended arousal effects were reportedly not achieved according to subjects' introspections

Target Learners

  • male college students (Dartmouth class of 1924)

Learning Goals

  • measuring non-intellective factors related to the disparity between intelligence test performance and scholarship grades

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Stone, Charles Leonard. (1924). Disparity Between Intelligence and Scholarship. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org
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id stone-discrepancy-test-battery-1924
title A four-part test battery measuring tension, perseverance, environmental assimilation, and aggression
description The article describes a battery administered to 87 summoned students to probe factors behind intelligence–scholarship discrepancy.
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