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
With the exception of the brief introductory statements and a few
orders, instructions are to be given throughout by means of gestures
instead of words. These gestures accompany the samples and
demonstrations and should be animated and emphatic.
It is absolutely necessary that directions be followed closely and
procedure kept uniform and definite. Variations of procedure are more
likely to occur in Beta than in Alpha, and there is serious risk that if
allowed they will lessen the value of results. E. should especially
guard against using more or fewer gestures or words for one group than
for another. Oral languages should be rigidly limited to the words and
phrases given in the procedure for the different tests.
Whether the men get the idea of the test and enter into it with the
proper spirit will depend chiefly on the skill with which the examiner,
the demonstrator, and the orderlies carry out their respective parts.
Examiner and demonstrator especially should be selected with the
greatest care. An examiner who succeeds admirably in giving Alpha may
prove to be entirely unadapted for Beta. Both examiner and demonstrator
must be adept in the use of gesture language. In the selection of a
demonstrator the Personnel Office should be consulted. One camp has had
great success with a “window seller” as demonstrator. Actors should also
be considered for the work. The orderlies should be able to keep the
subjects at work without antagonizing them and to keep them encouraged
without actually helping them.
_The demonstrator should have the single task of doing before the group
just what the group is later to do with the examination blanks._ The
blackboard is his Beta blank. Before examination Beta can be given
satisfactorily the demonstrator must be letter perfect in his part. Both
E. and demonstrator must be very careful to stand at the side of the
blackboard in order not to hide the drawings.
As soon as the men of a group have been properly seated, pencils should
be distributed and also examination blanks with Test 8 up. While this is
being done E. should say “Here are some papers. You must not open them
or turn them over until you are told to.” Holding up Beta blank, E.
continues:
“In the place where it says name, write your name; print it if you can.
(Pause.) Fill out the rest of the blank about your age, schooling, etc.,
as well as you can. If you have any trouble we will help you.” The
instructions given under segregation may be used for filling out the
Beta blank. E. should announce the group number and see that it as well
as the other necessary information is supplied. Before the examination
proceeds each paper should be inspected in order to make sure that it is
satisfactorily completed.
After the initial information has been obtained, E. makes the following
introductory remarks:
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