THE ACCOUNTING EXCHANGE.
The usefulness to teachers of results of aptitude tests given to their students may easily prove greater than might at first be expected. If a school must limit its enrollment, objective measurements of learning capacity would be a helpful addition to the evidence afforded by previous classroom grades. There are several reasons for thinking that teachers of accounting and colleges of commerce generally should be glad to cooperate in this experiment wherever it is feasible to do so. If the accountant needs a certain type of ability, but little or no mathematical knowledge, it is an open question whether the study of mathematics is the best way to attain that ability. If some other approach will develop the desired ability and at the same time give the student certain knowledge that will also be directly useful in his future work, it is clearly an advantage to follow this course, even if to do so means foregoing the discipline which is part of the study of mathematics.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-7036858
- Volume
- 19 (2)
- Pages
- 193-198
- Language
- en
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