Article: Aptitude testing inspired by information processing: a test of the four-sources model.

PSYCHOLOGISTS POINT to aptitude testing as a notable achievement of psychological research. But the actual practice of aptitude testing--the tests and procedures used to predict performance--has owed more to sophisticated methodologies for clustering and categorizing variables than to a deep psychological understanding of how people think and learn. Aptitude testing as currently practiced in education, industry, and the military is largely unchanged from what it was in the 1950s. But there have been advances in the last two decades in our understanding of cognitive psychology and human information processing. These advances have led to a widespread call to update aptitude ...

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