I think I may have misread your original post, because I thought the passage after the stars came from the same source. Yes, the statistics would be correct, but the conclusions drawn from them would be questionable: elsewhere, Thorndike and allies argued that the wide range of skills within individual grades was evidence of a need for "scientific management" of schools.
In terms of the other sources you mention, I don't know much of Whipple, other than editing the 1918 NSSE yearbook that had the triumphal claims of scientific management through ed statistics and assessment. Hollingworth strikes a bell: did he run school surveys at any point?
Terman... well, Terman strikes me as the quintessential pandering educational psychologist. In 1930, he admitted that he really didn't know much about statistics when he was in grad school and became interested in testing. He participated in the Army Alpha and Beta tests and then sold millions of copies in the 1920s. He created the Stanford Achievement Test series, which was also commercially succesful. I haven't looked at his longitudinal "gifted study" in years, so I'll withhold comments on that.
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Date: 2007-02-25 06:29 am (UTC)In terms of the other sources you mention, I don't know much of Whipple, other than editing the 1918 NSSE yearbook that had the triumphal claims of scientific management through ed statistics and assessment. Hollingworth strikes a bell: did he run school surveys at any point?
Terman... well, Terman strikes me as the quintessential pandering educational psychologist. In 1930, he admitted that he really didn't know much about statistics when he was in grad school and became interested in testing. He participated in the Army Alpha and Beta tests and then sold millions of copies in the 1920s. He created the Stanford Achievement Test series, which was also commercially succesful. I haven't looked at his longitudinal "gifted study" in years, so I'll withhold comments on that.