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The Validity of the GATB for the Educationally Deficient
Author(s) -
KUJOTH RICHARD
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1973.tb01129.x
Subject(s) - remedial education , psychology , coaching , aptitude , test (biology) , action (physics) , applied psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , mathematics education , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
The General Aptitude Test Battery, used by many state employment services as a counseling tool, has been criticized as an unfair screening device. A less restrictive policy of pretest coaching and retesting, combined with action research on the effects of remedial education on aptitudes scores is suggested, rather than a return to subjective assessment.