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ADMINISTERED

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Lewis Terman taught a course at StanfordUniversity.

His student Arthur Otis reportedly conceived

the idea of Stanford-Binet tasks to paper and

pencil format.

Many of Otis`s adapted tasks and others were

combined as the first group intelligence tests,

the Army Alpha and the Army Beta.


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A typical group intelligence test consists

of a series of multiple-choice questions

arranged in a spiral-omnibous format.

-Otis-lennon Mental Ability Tests and the

Henmon-Nelson Tests of MentalAbility.

Test composed of a series of separately

timed subtests:-The Test of Cognitive Skills

-The Cognitive Abilities Test


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Multilevel Group

Intelligence Tests

The rationale underlying the

construction of a multilevel

intelligence test is to provide a

series of tasks for comparing theintellectual growth of children over

several years.


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Otis Tests

-revisions of the earlier tests in the Otisseries.

-composed of a variety of items to

measure general mental ability from thelast half of kindergarten through grades 10-

12.

-testing time varies from 30 to 45 minutes.

-the most recent entry in the Otis series is

the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test.


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Test of Cognitive Skills

-successor to the California Short Form Test

of Mental Maturity And the Short Form

Test of Academic Aptitude.

-composed of four subtests (Sequences,

Analogies, Memory and Verbal Reasoning).

-combined scores on all four subtests maybe converted to a Cognitive Skills Index

(CSI).


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Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAt)

-successor to the Lorge-Thorndike IntelligenceTests.

-there are two levels of the Primary Battery:

Primary 1 (K to 2) and Primary II (grades 2 to 3).

-the Primary Battery and the Multilevel Edition

are composed of three parts (Verbal,

Quantitative and Nonverbal).

-working time for each subtest is 12-18 minutes.

-Raw scores on the Verbal, Quantitative and

Nonverbal parts may be converted to various

types of norms.


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Administration, Scoring and

Reporting of Group Tests-Group Intelligence tests can be administered to

small groups of children .

-in scoring group intelligence tests, raw scores,whether part or global, can be converted to

percentile ranks, standard scores, or other

numerical units.

-scores on group tests, should be interpreted

cautiously and against a background of other

information about the examinee.


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Academic Ability and Admissions

Tests

-A number of different tests have been used

over the years for college admissions purposes.

-The most popular test for admission to

graduate school is the Graduate Record

Examinations.

-The Quantitative tests consist of quantitative

and data interpretation problems.

-Several other standardized tests are used in

selecting students for admission to professional

schools.


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Nonverbal and Culture-fair Group

Intelligence Tests-Performance tests designed as individually

administered measures of the intellectual

abilities of persons with language or culturalhandicaps.

-The grandfather of these nonverbal tests was

the Army Beta of World War 1.

-Another example of a nonverbal test suitable

for group administration is the Goodenough-

Harris Drawing Test.


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Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test

-This test is a revision of the

Goodenough Draw-a-Man Test.

-The man and the woman figure thatthe examinee is instructed to draw are

scored for body and clothing details.

-This test is untimed.

-This test is culturally fair.


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Raven Progressive Matrices

-This test may be administered on eitheran individual or a group basis.

-Developed in Great Britain as a measure

of Spearmans general intelligence factor.

-Raven is available in two forms the 1938

and 1947 form.

-The percentile norms on both forms of the

test were obtained on samples of English

schoolchildren and adults.


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Culture Fair Intelligence Test

-This series of test is composed of three

scales: Scale 1, Scale 2 and Scale 3.

-Each scale is composed of four subtestsfor measuring the ability to perceive

relationships among other things.

-Testing time is 40-60 minutes for Scale 1and 25-30 minutes for each of the forms of

Scales 2 and 3.


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