ABSTRACT
During the 1890’s several attempts were made to utilize the new methods of measurement of individual differences in order to predict college grades. J. McKeen Cattell and his student Clark Wissler tried a large number of psychological tests and correlated them with grades in various subjects at Columbia University; see Cattell (1890), Cattell and Farrand (1896), and Wissler (1901). The correlations between psychological tests and the grades were around zero, the highest correlation being .19. A similar attempt by Gilbert (1894), at Yale, produced similarly disappointing results. (p. 1)
