For a sample of 219 elementary school pupils in the fifth grade, intercorrelations were investigated among four subtest measures: (a) Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT)—Social Studies, (b) Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT)—Verbal, (c) CAT—Quantitative, and (d) CAT—Non—Verbal. The CAT Verbal score yielded the highest correlation of .73 with the MAT measure.
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Durost, W. N., Bixler, H. H.Prescott, G. A., and Balow, I. H.Metropolitan Achievement Test, 1970 edition (Elementary Journal. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
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