Reproduction of Prose Passages 1See "Reproduction of Short Prose Passages: a Study of two Binet Tests," by A. Travis, Philadelphia, The Psychological Clinic, vol. ix, 1915, pp. 189–209. Miss Travis suggests for use with university students three new passages (203, 204), but has not apparently worked with them herself. Her paper furnishes the material for the present investigation, in which the passages suggested are used for the first time.

Freshman and Sophomore classes, sex groups, and age groups. We did not attempt (as Travis2 did) to discover whether the test gave satisfactory results for individuals. For in order to gauge the intelligence of individuals it is generally agreed3 that one kind of test alone is insufficient, and that a series of different tests give better results; and in the second place, tests given to classes are not given under the clinical conditions desiderated by Binet and those who follow his methods;4 while finally, even under favorable clinical conditions, Goddard finds the tests for "fifteen" and "adult," of which the present test is a modification, unreliable.5