Rick Froman wrote:
>You could certainly do this although the main purpose of the subject GRE is to
>predict performance in grad school (an aptitude test) instead of measuring how
>much you know about Intro (an achievement test). In fact, the MFT was
>developed to answer the need for outcomes assessment since some programs (I
>worked for one) were starting to use the GRE subject test for outcomes
>assessment.
Well, honest to all things scientific, I don't want to start anything, and I'm
only a clinical psychologist who had a minor in measurement theory, but I have
still to be convinced that just because you call a test an aptitude test and
another with almost identical content an achievement test, that they are really
different other than being taken at two different points in time. And believe
me, having had McCormick and Tiffin and Perloff as some of my professors in my
minor make and break all of the arguments on both sides, I remain convinced
that there is no difference.
Bob
Bob Wildblood, PhD, HSPP
Lecturer in Psychology
Indiana University Kokomo
Kokomo, IN 46904-9003
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but
do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. -Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
The race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. -Carl Van
Doren, professor, writer, and critic (1885-1950)
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