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 a result of the tests, each man is rated as A, B, C+, C, C−, D, D− or
E. The letter ratings are reported to the Interviewing Section of the
Personnel Office, and are there copied on the Qualification Cards (in
the square marked Intelligence). The Psychological Report, after the
grades have been copied on the Qualification Cards, is forwarded from
the Interviewing Section to the Mustering Section of the Personnel
Office, where each soldier’s letter rating is copied on the second page
of his Service Record. A copy of the Psychological Report is also sent
by the Psychological Examiner to the Company Commander, who uses it in
the organization of his company. In some camps the entering of
Intelligence Grades on Service Records has been left to company
commanders, but accuracy and uniformity is secured by having these
grades entered in the Mustering Section of the Personnel Office when the
Service Records are being started.
The psychological staff in a camp is ordinarily able to test 2,000 men
per day and to report the ratings to the Personnel Office within 24
hours. Personnel Adjutants will coöperate in arranging the schedule of
psychological examinations so as to secure from them maximum value (See
Chapter IV for the proper coördination of the work of the Psychological
Examiner with the work of other officers in a camp.)
_Explanation of letter ratings._—The rating a man earns furnishes a
fairly reliable index of his _ability to learn_, _to think quickly and
accurately_, _to analyze a situation_, _to maintain a state of mental
alertness_, _and to comprehend and follow instructions_. The score is
little influenced by schooling. Some of the highest records have been
made by men who had never completed the eighth grade. The meaning of the
letter ratings is as follows:
A. _Very Superior Intelligence._ This grade is earned by only four or
five soldiers out of a hundred. The “A” group is composed of men of
marked intellectuality. “A” men are of high officer type when they are
also endowed with leadership and other necessary qualities.
B. _Superior Intelligence._ “B” intelligence is superior, but less
exceptional than that represented by “A.” The rating “B” is obtained by
eight to ten soldiers out of a hundred. The group contains a good many
men of the commissioned officer type and a large amount of
non-commissioned officer material.
C+. _High Average Intelligence._ This group includes about fifteen to
eighteen per cent. of all soldiers and contains a large amount of
non-commissioned officer material with occasionally a man whose
leadership and power to command fit him for commissioned rank.
C. _Average Intelligence._ Includes about twenty-five per cent. of
soldiers. Excellent private type with a certain amount of fair
non-commissioned officer material.
C−. _Low Average Intelligence._ Includes about twenty per cent. While
below average in intelligence, “C−” men are usually good privates and
satisfactory in work of routine nature.
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