The intelligence and achievement of normal school students

Abstract

Entering students at the New Haven State Normal School were given the Thorndike Intelligence Test. The scores were correlated with composite scores on survey tests in subject matter of the elementary school curriculum, the result being a coefficient of 0.53 ± 0.045. Later in the year the correlation between the Thorndike Intelligence Test and ranking in the class (honor points) was computed and found to be 0.175 ± 0.05. There is included in the study a brief review of the literature on the subject. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)