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
Every effort should be made to have such a group feel that this was
simply a new type of puzzle. The results obtained under such conditions
should not be compared with the results obtained under the standard
conditions outlined below.
_Directions for Giving the Test._
The candidates to be examined should be comfortably seated and provided
with well-sharpened pencils. The examiner should then announce that the
booklets which he would distribute were not to be opened until
instructions to that effect were issued. Booklets should be distributed
unopened, one to each individual. Further directions should be issued as
soon as each candidate is supplied with the booklet, authorizing each
individual to write his name, his age, and such other information as is
desirable on the title page of the booklet. When these preliminaries
have been finished the examiner should say:
“When I ask you to open your booklet, you will find on the inside a list
of forty different words. The test is to determine how many of these
words you can read and identify. At the top of the page you will find
the words, Animal, Body, Bird, Colour, Clothes, Fish, Time, Tool, and
War. Each of the forty words to be identified is connected with or is a
kind of Animal, Body, Bird, Colour, or other kind of thing mentioned at
the top of the page. The page is ruled both ways. You are to look at
each word in the column on the left and to make a check mark at the
right of it, under the general word showing whether the word you are
marking is an Animal, a Body, a Bird, or something else. You will be
allowed exactly four minutes in which to check the words. Mark as many
of the words as you possibly can but be sure to check them correctly.
Ready! Go!”
Indicate the meaning of each of the forty words in the column on
the left by making a mark (✓) under the proper word.
CONNECTED WITH, OR A KIND OF
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