INTELLIGENCE TESTS FOR PUPILS
GOOD RESULTS CLAIMED FM EXPERIMENTS . ■ '..,1 i ■ (press association tklzgbak.)* AUCKLAND,. January 11' A claim that large-scale inyestiption had. shown that a half : hour iatelligence test could give.nearly a good an idea of the relative ab£U&i of pupils in a class, as measured bj examinations, as could school reuls after seven or eight years of "primary work, was made by Mr K. W.E Glasgow, of Dunedin, in a paper read to the Science Congress.-, The enquiry was carried out ovb two years in 20 city schools-in the south among pupils- in the sbtti standard and at high and technical schools, he said. ' Discrepancies id occurred,'-but they were far out; weighed by the similarities, as the tests agreed in quite a remarkable, manner with the marks assigned bj headmasters in examinations.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21991, 15 January 1937, Page 10
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