Assessors with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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How Robust Was the Science Behind the 11 Plus?
Sir cyril lodovick bert, 18 80, threet 19 71, english educational psychologist and geneticist. His claim to fame is that he was responsible for the introduction of the 11 plus exam in the u.K. Was enshrined in the 19 forty-four butler act through the 19 four butler act. He falsely claimed to have invented a statistical techniquo, factor analysis. An actual fact, he stole it from alegical charles spearman. But far worse than this was the complete falsification of his data. So he edited, falsified, not only the data for his own work, but also from co workers in the research. And
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