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
The score in this test is determined by the number of lines in which the
candidate has entered the correct forms to complete the line perfectly.
No credit should be given if any one of the sections remain unfilled or
be filled incorrectly. The stencil which is furnished with the test
booklets makes the task of marking the errors very much simpler than it
is without such aid. The total score obtained should be entered in the
lower right-hand corner of the title page of the booklet.
[Illustration: Fill in the missing forms]
Scores from 0 to 2 indicate Inferior Ability
Scores from 3 to 5 indicate Low Average Ability
Scores from 6 to 12 indicate Average Ability
Scores from 13 to 15 indicate High Average Ability
Scores from 16 to 20 indicate Superior Ability
MENTIMETER NO. 7
CHECKING IDENTITY OF NUMBERS
_Character of the Test._
Bank tellers and other clerical workers find it necessary very
frequently to compare signatures or numerical figures as to identity. A
test might be arranged in which it was necessary for an individual to
compare several sets of numbers all of the same length and general
appearance. Such a test would, however, resolve itself very largely into
a test of speed. The present form attempts to eliminate some of the
speed element and to take to itself as much as possible of the quality
of measuring the complexity which is necessary to cause an error in the
recognition of identity. There are thirty numbers to be compared with
another list of thirty in a parallel column. The first numbers have only
two digits but the number of digits is increased fairly regularly until
in the last pairs eleven digits in one column must be compared with the
eleven digits in another.
This test is probably as useful a measure of ability to notice small
details as it is necessary to make. The chief objection to it will come
from individuals who are not gifted by nature with the ability to think
in terms of numbers. This objection is not serious and will not be as
valid even in their own cases as those who make it are inclined to
believe. The test may be given as a group test if some means be provided
for demonstrating before the entire group at one time just what type of
activity is wanted. The directions given below are for giving the test
as an individual examination, but with slight modifications the same
directions will serve quite well for group examination. It is not
necessary, of course, for the candidates to understand the English
language if the examiner is thoroughly effective in his pantomimic
instructions.
_Directions for Giving the Test._
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