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The Validity of a Persistence Test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

John W. French
John W. French*
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Educational Testing Service
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Abstract

In order to raise the predictive efficiency of its college entrance test battery, the Educational Testing Service is working on the development of non-academic measures to supplement the standard aptitude and achievement examinations. A test of difficult number series problems was set up to measure persistence by tempting the students to give up early; the students were informed that some of the problems had no solution, and that full credit would be received by so marking them. This test was tried out and found to have some correlation with grades, while having no correlation with the other tests. Adding this test to the battery showed an appreciable rise in the battery's multiple correlation with grades.

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Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1948 , pp. 271 - 277
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Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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