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 the number of symbols correctly supplied.
Marking the errors is very much simplified by the use of the stencils
furnished with each package of test booklets. The number of symbols
correctly written should be recorded at the end of each line in the test
and the total for all lines should be entered in the lower right-hand
corner of the title page of the booklet.
Scores from 0 to 20 indicate Inferior Ability
Scores from 21 to 35 indicate Low Average Ability
Scores from 36 to 65 indicate Average Ability
Scores from 66 to 75 indicate High Average Ability
Scores from 76 to 100 indicate Superior Ability
MENTIMETER NO. 9
COMPLETION OF NUMBER RELATION SERIES
_Character of the Test._
This test may be given to any individuals or groups of persons who can
read and understand the arabic numerals. The directions furnished
herewith are for the measurement of a group rather than of an
individual, although with very slight modifications in instructions the
test leaflet may be employed in an individual psychological examination.
The title page of the leaflet contains fairly complete directions and
three samples of the number series to be completed. Persons who read
English readily will have a distinct advantage over those who must
depend upon oral instructions, but experience has shown that, even with
individuals who do not understand the English language, it is possible
to demonstrate on a blackboard, using the sample exercises, with
sufficient clearness to enable foreign language-speaking candidates to
grasp the idea of the work to be done. No comparisons should be made,
however, between results obtained by oral demonstration and results
obtained through the use of the instructions printed below, without
making allowances for the differences in method of administration.
The Number Relation Series test is so difficult to understand that it is
hardly worth while to employ this test with children below ten years of
age or with adults whose mental capacity is not equal to or better than
that of the ten-year-old school child. The method of marking the test is
quite simple when one is supplied with the stencil which is furnished
with each package of test blanks. The present form of the test is
somewhat different from those used elsewhere and it is difficult to say
just what phases of intellectual or mathematical ability are measured by
it. The Army intelligence tests included a number relation series test,
so arranged that the last two numbers in each series must always be
supplied by the person tested. Dr. Agnes Rogers, in her study of the
prognostication of mathematical ability, employed a test which is very
closely related to the one given here. Her results seem to show that
this form of test is a splendid measure of mathematical capacity in high
school pupils.
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