Excerpt from Standard Educational Tests: Manual of Directions
Within recent years educational science has developed standardized tests and scales for measuring the achievements of school children. One of the obvious advantages of such measuring instruments is that they offer standards of attainment for the several grades based upon the performance of a large number of children to whom they have been given. They present, therefore, a known difficulty for the several grades, and with such tests it is possible to determine the relative standing of any pupil or any class in terms of standard scores.
The usefulness of such standard scales and tests is now generally accepted in leading educational circles throughout the country, and wide-awake teachers and supervisors are everywhere employing them to supplement their regular school procedure. The time has come when the efficiency of teaching and the progress of children in certain subjects can be more clearly stated in terms of standard tests than in any other way.
2. Intelligence Tests
While the use of achievement tests may thus be said to be a fairly well-established procedure in leading school systems throughout the country, the employment of tests of general intelligence is less widespread. There can be little doubt, however, that the time is ripe for a considerable extension of intelligence testing in connection with regular school procedure.
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