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INTELLIGENCE, COMMON ENTRANCE AND THE GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION
Author(s) -
HOCKEY S. W.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1968.tb01999.x
Subject(s) - certificate , psychology , test (biology) , intelligence quotient , verbal reasoning , developmental psychology , school certificate , mathematics education , cognition , mathematics , psychiatry , paleontology , algorithm , biology
S ummary . This report describes an analysis of the school careers of 506 boys between the ages of 13 and 18, those careers being summarised by the marks obtained in the 13+ Common Entrance examination, a Moray House verbal reasoning test, the Ordinary level of the General Certificate of Education, and the Advanced level of the General Certificate of Education. The individual papers of the Common Entrance examination are found, on the whole, to be the best predictors of the corresponding O level subjects, and the IQ appears as the best single predictor of the overall O level performance. The IQ is also by far the best predictor of the overall A level performance. Analysis of the way in which the different school subjects group themselves together at 13 and 16 suggests that there are two significant factors of 13‐year‐old mental ability, and the factor involving the analytical subjects divides into two by the age of 16.