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Wrongful attribution of the development of the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests to Thorndike edit

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The following paragraph in the Adult Learning section is inaccurate: "Thorndike put his testing expertise to work for the United States Army during World War I. He created both the Alpha and Beta versions that led to today's ASVAB, a multiple choice test administered by the United States Military Entrance Processing Command that is used to determine qualification for enlistment in the United States armed forces. For classification purposes, soldiers were administered Alpha tests. With the realization that some soldiers could not read well enough to complete the Alpha test, the Beta test (consisting of pictures and diagrams) was administered. Such contributions anchored the field of psychology and encouraged later development of educational psychology."

The primary developer of the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests was Robert Yerkes, as evidenced by the Wikipedia page devoted to each test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Alpha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Beta

129.120.195.115 (talk) 23:13, 3 March 2020 (UTC)PsychologyHistorianReply

This misattribution has been replaced; Thorndike apparently only participated in the development of the Beta test.

Cosmicdense (talk) 23:26, 1 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

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