The picture completion test / by Rudolph Pintner and Margaret M. Anderson.

  • Pintner, Rudolf, 1884-1942.
Date:
[1917], ©1917
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The picture completion test / by Rudolph Pintner and Margaret M. Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (5) Age-norms and percentile norms for each age have been established, and the number of subjects tested at each age is large enough to insure their reli- ability. These norms can be used for purposes of a year scale, a point scale, or a percentile scale. (6) The test is equally well adapted to boys and to girls. Neither sex shows decided or consistent super- iority over the other in the performance of the test. (7) Children from a good or medium social environ- ment are able to perform the test somewhat better than children from a poor environment. This cor- responds to the difference in general intelligence between such groups shown by other tests. (8) The accelerated pupils did better than the re- tarded pupils, which shows that the test is differenti- ating between good and poor pupils. (9) The other methods of scoring that have been proposed up to the present time do not do adequate justice to the test. They are too rough for the finer differentiations that are possible with it. (10) The time taken to perform the test has been found to be relatively unimportant as a measure of ability, so much so as not to have been taken into account in scoring the performance. (11) The method of scoring is justified by the high correlations between the rank in order of difficulty for each age and the rank for the total group of sub- jects tested. (12) Correlations between the performance at each age and that at every other age show that the difficulty of the various moves is roughly the same for children of all ages.