Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
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Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
A blackboard containing the two examples should be placed in full view
of all the candidates in the room. The test blanks should be passed to
the candidates, with well-sharpened pencils or pens and ink. The
examiner should then hold up in full view of the group a test blank
showing the three pages of figures on which they are to work. He should
then get the attention of everyone to the work by saying “Look” or
“Watch.” With a piece of chalk, he should then go through the pantomime
described above for giving the examination to an individual. Care should
be taken that none of the brighter candidates begins work before the
signal for everyone to work. When the two examples have been thoroughly
demonstrated on the blackboard, the examiner may turn to the group, open
up his test blank, and point to the first page of work to be done and
say, “Begin here,” “Go ahead,” “Work fast.” At the end of four minutes,
he should call “Stop,” should collect all papers, making certain as he
does so that some identification mark is present on the paper to show to
which candidate it belongs. No special explanation should be given and
no person in the group should be allowed to sit idle while the
examination is going on. If it is clear that the individual has not
understood, the examiner may say, “Do what I did,” pointing to the board
and then to the paper. Individuals may be told during the course of the
examination, if they seem to be doing nothing, to “Make your marks.”
_c._ As a group test for candidates who can read English.
Place each candidate at a table or chair with a writing surface, supply
him with a test blank and pencil or other writing instrument. While the
candidates are being supplied, the examiner should make the following
statement: “Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so. I
shall make explanations as soon as everybody is supplied.”
When all are ready, the examiner should hold up a copy of the test and
speak as follows: “There are three pages of work to be done. The page
before you shows two samples of the kind of thing you are to do. You
will notice at the right a large figure and at the left several small
figures. When properly placed together, these small figures will make
one of the large figures at the right. You are to draw a line, or
several lines, through the large figure at the right in such a way as to
make of it the small figures at the left.
“Now look at the examples before you. Is there any one who does not see
what line ought to be drawn in order to make the large figure show the
pieces which appear at its left? You will have four minutes in which to
do the work on the three pages. Work quickly, but be sure to draw your
lines correctly. If you complete the fifteen figures before I call
‘Stop,’ look back over your work to see that you have made no mistakes.”
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