APPLICATION OF STATISTICS IN EDUCATIONS PART SEVEN: STATISTICS, TESTS AND EXAMINATIONS
PART SEVEN: STATISTICS, TESTS AND EXAMINATIONS v Application of Statistics in Education. v Psychological Tests. v Examinations and Scholastic Tests. v Chapter 33 APPLICATION OF STATISTICS IN EDUCATIONS The Chapter at a Glance Introduction of precision. Some basic statistical concepts. Distribution of IQ. The guiding role of statistics. As sciences progress they become more and more precise and quantitative. Says Walker: "The more advanced the sciences have become the more they have tended to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a sort of centre towards which they converge. We can judge the perfection to which a science has come by the facility, more or less great, with which it may be approached by calculation." Introduction of Precision Application of statistical methods to the problems of education has resulted in making the science of education more quantitative and more precise. In fact, the con