Scholastic and Intelligence Tests

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Mental and Scholastic Tests

This volume, one of vital importance to all interested in the problems and implications of mental testing, makes a timely reappearance in a second and enlarged edition. Here we have a detailed description and analysis of the investigations carried out by the author during his years spent as Psychologist to the London County Council. The appointment of Dr. Burt to that post in 1913 marked the be...

Artificial intelligence and scholastic epistemology

The advance of computer technology that has greatly exceeded human computational capabilities makes the question of the artificial intelligence (AI) quite natural. If the rate of the progress is maintained, one might anticipate the existence of algorithms mimicking human thinking. Thinking, however, involves not only purely logical operations (enjoying high level of perfection today) but combin...

Scholastic success: fluid intelligence, personality, and emotional intelligence

The aim of the current study was to take examine the role of fluid intelligence, personality traits and emotional intelligence in predicting female Year 9 students Grade Point Average (GPA) and to determine whether any differences in scholastic performance were related to differences in Emotional Intelligence or Personality. Two-hundred and forty-three female secondary students who were enrolle...

Interaction Effects between Openness and Fluid Intelligence Predicting Scholastic Performance

Figural reasoning as an indicator of fluid intelligence and the domains of the Five Factor Model were explored as predictors of scholastic performance. A total of 836 Chinese secondary school students (406 girls) from grades 7 to 11 participated. Figural reasoning, as measured by Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices, predicted performance in Math, Chinese, and English, and also for a composite...