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The Reliability and Validity of Tests
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The Reliability and Validity of Tests

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  • L. L. Thurstone

    …existing testing methods appeared in The Reliability and Validity of Tests (1931). He attacked the concept of an ideal mental age, then commonly used in intelligence testing, advocating instead the use of percentile rankings to compare performance. He also developed a rating scale for locating individual attitudes and opinions along…

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    …existing testing methods appeared in The Reliability and Validity of Tests (1931). He attacked the concept of an ideal mental age, then commonly used in intelligence testing, advocating instead the use of percentile rankings to compare performance. He also developed a rating scale for locating individual attitudes and opinions along…

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