It might appear retrogressive to occupy oneself with, and write about, Raven's 1956 intelligence test. Presumably it is no longer applied at all in Denmark. Danish school psychologists have never considered it a good and reliable test, but it was at one time used for certain screening purposes, and now and then it was included in the ‘battery’ that had to be applied in attempts to penetrate as far as possible into a child's wholly special problems.
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