The Competency of Fifty College Students a Diagnostic Study

ss task to trace its history down to the present moment in any adequate manner. Studies of this character have been carried on in every psychological laboratory connected with a college or university, and a complete bibliography of the reports on the subject would cover many pages. It will be well, however, to mention a few of the more important investigations which have a direct bearing on the present problem, in so far as it concerns the correlation of test results with academic standing. Wissler (1) correlated the results published by Cattell and Farrand, to which reference has been made above, with the university grades assigned to the hundred students under consideration. Calfee (2) has reported on "Four General Intelligence Tests" given to approximately one hundred students at the University of Texas. Similar investigations have been made by Rowland and Lowden (3) at Reed College, Waugh (4) at Beloit College, and by Kitson (5) at the University of Chicago. The latter study is particularly worthy of note in that a very careful and intensive examination of forty students was made. King and McCrory (6) report the results of tests on five hundred freshmen at the University of Iowa, Caldwell (7) has correlated the Intelligence Quotient of approximately one hundred students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, as determined by the Adult Tests of the Stanford Revision, with college grades, and Rogers (8) gives interesting results of her investigation at Goucher College.... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.