Interrelationship of the SRA Primary Mental Abilities, Other Mental Characteristics, and Reading Ability

Abstract

IN MENTAL testing there has been a growing dissatisfaction with a single measure of general mental ability. This trend has produced the American Council on Education Psychological Examination, the Wechs ler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and many other tests which provide two or more quotients or measures of ability. To date, the most ambitious of all the multiple-measure in telligence tests are those produced by L. L. and T. G. Thurstone. The Thurstones claim: (6)