Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
Science
Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
MENTIMETER NO. TITLE
2. Pictorial Absurdities
3. Maze Threading
5. Geometrical Figures
6. Completion of Form Series
18. Range of Information
20. Reading Directions
22. Disarranged Sentences
23. Sentence Completion
24. Analogies
27. Poetic Discrimination
29. Practical Judgment
30. Logical Conclusions
Whatever the purpose for which the tests are to be used, the best
results can be obtained only by securing from the original publishers
the carefully printed forms prepared by the authors of the tests.
Mimeographed copies of test blanks or privately printed blanks are
certain to differ so much from the true form that the results obtained
therewith cannot be directly compared with the official results.
Long experience has likewise demonstrated, fairly clearly, that the best
results will be obtained in any industrial organization or educational
staff by making one person chiefly responsible for the proper
administration of the intellectual and educational measurements. If a
personnel director is at hand who can study his tests just as
scientifically as he studies his men, progress and improvement in the
methods and results are inevitable.
Measurements of intelligence are by no means the only or final criteria
by which the successful personnel manager wins success in his work and
saves money for his employers. He makes use of every piece of
information about his men that it is possible for him to pick up
anywhere. The trade tests particularly offer a wide field in which
measurements of intelligence may be supplemented and made more useful.
Of two men who are to-day working in the same trade, receiving the same
wages and making the same score on their trade tests, that one is more
promising who has the higher intelligence score. On the other hand, of
two equally intelligent men, as measured by the intelligence tests, that
one who has attained within a given time the higher proficiency in his
trade is superior.
The chief value of the group intelligence tests will probably always be
in the classification of large groups of persons into smaller,
well-defined groups, the members of which groups may then be studied
more carefully and by more exact methods in the hands of a trained
psychologist, if necessary. Until the group method of examination was
developed, making it possible to test the intellectual ability of every
employee without tremendous expense in time and money, it would have
been most foolish to talk about maintaining a continuous inventory of
the mental strength of an organization, and yet such an inventory is now
possible—just as possible as the record of the condition and capacity of
each machine owned by the company.
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