Note on the validity of the American Council on Education Psychological Examination

Abstract

It has often been suggested that the opposites subtest of the American Council Psychological Examination would have a higher validity than the total battery if it were lengthened sufficiently and applied without a time limit. An opposites test meeting these conditions was constructed and was found to correlate only .433 with scholarship, whereas the American Council test correlated .504. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)