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
TEST 2—CUBE ANALYSIS
“This is Test 2 _here_. Look.” After everyone has found the page—“Now
watch.” The order of procedure is as follows:
(1) E. points to the three-cube model on the blackboard, making a rotary
movement of the pointer to embrace the entire picture.
(2) With similar motions he points to the three-cube model on shelf.
(3) E. points next to picture on blackboard and asks, “How many?”
(4) E. turns to cube model and counts aloud, putting up his fingers
while so doing, and encouraging the men to count with him.
(5) E. taps each cube on the blackboard and motions to demonstrator,
asking him “How many?”
[Illustration: Test 2]
(6) Demonstrator (pointing) counts cubes on blackboard silently and
writes the figure 3 in proper place.
In the second sample of this test, when E. counts cubes of model he
(1) counts the three exposed cubes;
(2) touches the unexposed cube with pointer; and
(3) without removing pointer turns model, so that hidden cube comes into
view of group. In other respects procedure with second and third samples
is the same as with first.
In counting the 12–cube model, E. (1) counts the top row of cubes in the
model (left to right), (2) counts the exposed bottom row (right to
left), (3) taps with pointer the end cube of hidden row, (4) turns the
entire model around and completes his counting. E. then holds model in
same place as drawing and counts (in the same order as above) the cubes
on blackboard, counting lines between front and top row as representing
the hidden row. He then asks demonstrator “How many?” Demonstrator
counts the cubes on blackboard (pointing but not speaking) and writes
the response.
Throughout the demonstration the counting is done deliberately, not more
rapidly than one cube per second.
At end of demonstration E. points to page and says, “All right. Go
ahead.” At the end of 2½ minutes he says, “Stop! Look at me and don’t
turn the page.”
TEST 3—X-O SERIES
“This is Test 3 _here_. Look.” After everyone has found the page—“Now
watch.” E. first points to the blank rectangles at the end, then traces
each “O” in chart, then traces outline of “O’s” in remaining spaces.
Demonstrator, at a gesture, draws them in. E. then traces first “X” in
next sample, moves to next “X” by tracing the arc of an imaginary
semicircle joining the two, and in the same manner traces each “X,”
moving over an arc to the next. He then traces outlines of “X’s” in the
proper blank spaces, moving over the imaginary arc in each case, and
motions to demonstrator to draw them in. Demonstrator, at a gesture,
fills in remaining problems very slowly, standing well to the right of
the blackboard and writing with his left hand. E. points to page and
says, “All right! Go ahead. Hurry up!” At end of 1¾ minutes he says,
“Stop! Turn over the page to Test 4.”
[Illustration: Test 3]
TEST 4—DIGIT—SYMBOL
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