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
As with all of the other tests listed in this series of “Tests for
Non-English-Speaking Persons,” the Addition tests will bring more
satisfactory results, with much greater economy of time, if they are
administered as group tests. They are here described, however, as tests
for individual candidates in order that they may be given to foreign
language-speaking candidates without any other apparatus than that
furnished by the test booklets themselves. Any teacher or employer who
has a number of persons to be examined should prepare a blackboard or
wall chart on which to exhibit an enlarged copy of the examples used in
the introduction. By placing this at the front of the room in full view
of all candidates, the pantomimic instructions here described may be
used for non-English-speaking candidates, or simple verbal explanations
may supplement them for English-speaking persons.
_Directions for Giving Mentimeter 10a._
The examiner, after securing from the candidate his name, address, age,
and other pertinent information, should turn the examination leaflet and
exhibit, for ten or fifteen seconds, the addition tests which are to be
solved. The leaflet should then be turned over to the title page again
and attention should be called to the examples appearing on the middle
of this page under the heading “Add.” The examiner should point to the
first example
2
2
—
and placing his pencil on the lower 2 and then upon the upper 2 should
seem to hesitate for an instant and then write 4 underneath the line.
Looking at the second example
15
3
——
he should place his pencil on the 3 and then on the 5 and, with only an
instant’s hesitation, should write 18. Similarly, looking at the third
example,
23
25
16,
———
he should place his pencil first on the 6, then on the 5, then on the 3,
and write a 4 underneath the line; then place his pencil on the 1 and
then upon the two 2’s in order and write 6 at the left of the 4. With
this explanation the examination booklet should be opened and a pencil
supplied to the candidate with the instructions “Go ahead! Add them
all!”
MENTIMETER NO. 10A.
Add:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
3 2 14 45 13 23 14
2 5 3 34 21 35 45
— 1 —— —— 22 30 83
— —— —— ——
(8) (9) (10) (11) (12)
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