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THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS ON A HIGH LEVEL TEST OF REASONING
Author(s) -
HEIM A. W.,
WATTS K. P.
Publication year - 1972
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.2044-8279.1972.tb00693.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , diagrammatic reasoning , developmental psychology , mathematics education , computer science , paleontology , biology , programming language
S ummary . 1,439 boys, members of four public schools, took Test AH6 AG. This is a high‐level test of reasoning whose total score can be broken down into a verbal (V) and a numerical‐plus‐diagrammatic (N + D) subscore. These three measures were compared with the boys’ GCE results at O‐level and A‐level. Significant correlations were obtained between the test and GCE, for most school subjects. A tendency was found for V to yield the best results in arts subjects; in mathematics and science, however, total score in general yielded a closer association than did N + D. AH6 AG proved to be a good predictor of all‐round scholastic ability on the criterion of number of O‐ and A‐level subjects successfully taken.