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
MENTIMETER NO. TITLE
6. Completion of Form Series
7. Checking Identity of Numbers
8. Digit-Symbol Substitution
9. Completion of Number Relation Series
16. Naming Opposites
23. Completion of Sentences
24. Analogies
28. Arithmetic Reasoning
It is possible, of course, that some employer who makes the trial will
find a half dozen other tests that show more accurate results in
classifying clerical workers than will be shown by any test in the above
list, but such a thing will probably not happen, for the type of test
which has been useful in similar situations will probably prove useful
again. If such a thing did happen, however, the employer would be
foolish and unscientific to retain the list suggested above when he knew
of a better list.
In the classification of the intelligence of labourers, the authors
would suggest that the following tests be given fair trial:
MENTIMETER NO. TITLE
2. Pictorial Absurdities
3. Maze Threading
5. Dividing Geometric Figures
6. Completion of Form Series
9. Completion of Number Relation Series
18. Range of Information
28. Arithmetic Reasoning
29. Practical Judgment
For classifying public school pupils according to their general
intellectual power and ability to learn, the authors propose that the
following tests be employed until a different selection has been proved
to be superior:
MENTIMETER NO. TITLE
2. Pictorial Absurdities
3. Maze Threading
8. Digit-Symbol Substitution
16. Naming Opposites
20. Reading Directions
23. Completion of Sentences
28. Arithmetic Reasoning
29. Practical Judgment
As being more strictly education tests rather than tests of intelligence
the reader’s attention is invited to the following list:
MENTIMETER NO. TITLE
10. Addition
17. Spelling
19. Reading: Vocabulary
21. Reading: Interpretation
25. Handwriting
26. English Composition
27. Poetic Discrimination
28. Arithmetic Reasoning
The most profitable list from the point of view of social entertainment
would seem to be the following:
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