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
Its use in social gatherings as a form of entertainment will be greatest
where each person marks the papers of some other member of the group and
reports the judgments found incorrect. Most persons are surprised, when
they come to look over their booklets carefully, to find how many
foolish errors have crept into their records while working at high
speed. In order to increase the number of imperfect records and thereby
add somewhat to the amusement of the group, the examiner may announce
and use two minutes as the time limit, and urge everyone to try to work
all of the 24 questions in that time. The general confusion will be
increased if the examiner signals the end of the first minute and the
end of a minute and a half. Under such conditions, of course, no serious
use can be made of the results obtained. The score on the test is not to
be used seriously except where the instructions and procedure are
exactly as specified below.
_Directions for Giving the Test._
Candidates should be comfortably seated at a table or supplied with a
convenient writing board. A well-sharpened pencil (or pen with ink)
should be in the hands of each candidate before any blanks are passed
out. The test booklets should then be distributed, the announcement
being clearly made beforehand that “no one will be allowed to open the
booklet or turn it over until the signal is given to do so.”
When each candidate has been supplied with a test booklet, title page
up, the examiner should say: “Now, write your name on the blank
following the word Name.” After a pause long enough to allow this
direction to be carried out, the examiner should continue with a similar
instruction for each of the other pieces of information required by the
title page blanks. “Age at last birthday” should be insisted upon, if
there is any question of reporting age in any other way. Group numbers
and locations may be left blank where only small numbers of persons are
being tested and where there is no probability of getting the papers
from one place mixed with those from some other place. The name of the
school, factory, or city will usually be sufficient for the blank headed
“Location.”
After the necessary identifying information has been entered at the top
of the title page, the examiner should ask the candidates to read
silently the directions while he reads them aloud. He should then read
slowly and distinctly:
“The following pages contain 24 questions and 4 answers to each
question. You are to vote for the best answer to each question by making
a check mark (✓) in the square that stands before it. The questions are
not hard, and you will be allowed 3 minutes to check the best answers,
but be sure to work carefully and rapidly. Vote only for the one best
answer to each question. Turn the page! Go!”
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