Dr Poulsen (School Psychology International, 4(3)), in common with many other critics of testing, fails to distinguish between the value of a test and the uses to which it is put. Paradoxically, it is only the availability of tests which allows psychologists to come to the conclusion that certain abilities, motivational dispositions or attitudes do not reflect stable individual differences but experience or the particular situation in which an individual has been placed (J. Raven, 1979).
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