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 Analogies test is scored according to the number of lines in which
the candidate has written the proper fourth word. With each package of
test blanks a stencil is furnished by means of which any one may score
the results very quickly. The stencil is to be placed along the page
next to the written column of words, and where the written word on the
page corresponds to the word or words printed on the stencil at that
level the written word stands as correct. Where there is disagreement
between the written word and the words printed at that level on the
stencil, a diagonal line (/) should be drawn through the number at the
end of the written word to indicate that an error has been made. Where
no word has been written on the blank, the number at the end of the
blank may be circled to indicate the omission.
The final score should be written in the lower right-hand corner of the
front cover of the test booklet. This final score is found by adding all
the correct responses (the numbers not crossed out or circled). Since
there are thirty lines, the maximum score possible is 30.
Scores from 0 to 5 indicate Inferior Ability
Scores from 6 to 12 indicate Low Average Ability
Scores from 13 to 23 indicate Average Ability
Scores from 24 to 26 indicate High Average Ability
Scores from 27 to 30 indicate Superior Ability
About 30 per cent. of a group of college graduates should be expected to
secure Superior ratings, about 50 per cent. High Average, and the
remainder only Average ratings.
Mentimeter No. 25
HANDWRITING
_Character of the Test._
Many pseudo-scientists have claimed the ability to interpret character
and intelligence, and the past and the future, by means of an
individual’s handwriting. The present test has no relation to such
misguided efforts. This test is designed to measure accurately the speed
at which one can write, and to indicate the general quality of the
product produced at that speed.
Large groups of individuals may be examined at the same time by this
test, although it may be used as a test of an individual if necessary.
It is quite certain that an individual who works at such a task as that
set by this test in the company of other people will succeed better than
if he works at it alone. The results obtained when an individual is
tested alone are not exactly comparable, therefore, to the results which
would be attained if he were tested in a group.
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