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Prognostication and Language Aptitude Testing, 1925-62.
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Spolsky, Bernard – 1994
Objective public testing methods were brought into use in language programs in the 1930s, primarily to justify decisions to exclude unqualified students from high school foreign language classes. In the United States, after World War II, government language programs supported research into the assessment of language aptitude to improve selection…
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