Speed and accuracy as factors in objective tests in general psychology

Abstract

Objective tests were given to 186 students in psychology at intervals throughout the semester. The scores were arranged in nine variables relative to speed and nine relative to accuracy. The average of all the inter-accuracy correlations is about 0.43 and the average of the interspeed correlations is somewhat less than that, but the correlations between speed and accuracy average about zero. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)