Differential diagnosis of ability in school children / by David Segel.

  • Segel, David.
Date:
1934
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Credit: Differential diagnosis of ability in school children / by David Segel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No other use of this method with test batteries or diagnostic tests has come to the attention of the writer. ‘The necessary data on very few batteries or diagnostic tests are available. Gates!® has given the necessary data for the analysis of his reading tests. These tests are diagnostic and therefore it is proper that they be used in differential diagnosis if the subtests differentiate the abilities of an indi- vidual pupil. Gates’ data for his primary tests for a 2B class is given in Table IV. Test I, Test I Test II, Self-correlation Number | words with | ,ords aay phrases (reliabilities), Grade of Test II Test III ete., with tests pupils | phrasesand| girections Test III sentences directions I | II | 71T aie ie ene weed ec NT Se 2B 38 55 . 60 | .58 .88 | .81] .88 There are three possibilities for a differential diagnosis, i.e., as between Test I and II, Test I and III, and Test II and III. Considering the efficiency 18 Gates, A. I. ‘‘The Gates Primary Reading Tests.” | Teachers College Record, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, October, 1926, | page 177. “Methods of Constructing and Validating the Gates Reading Tests.’ Teachers College Record, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, November, 1927, pp. 152-53.
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