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
The Mentimeter series of examinations which follows consists of thirty
different tests, the majority of which are modifications of tests which
have been used previously elsewhere. The first test in the series is to
be used as an individual test of very young children. The blank provided
furnishes brief suggestions, at each point, of what the procedure should
be, and also furnishes a place for the examiner to record the result of
his questions and observations.
Each examination booklet in the Mentimeter series has on its title page
blanks as follows:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ NAME______________________________________ │
│ │
│ AGE AT LAST BIRTHDAY_______LOCATION_______ │
│ │
│ __________________________________________ │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The space headed “Location” is to be used to indicate the business or
industrial organization or the department of the candidate being
examined; or the grade, class, and school of a school pupil. These
blanks should always be filled out before the examination begins.
At the middle of the page directions are frequently given with examples
to serve in explaining concretely just what the nature of the test is
going to be. In the lower right-hand corner of the title page there
appears a blank, preceded by the words “Total Score.” This is to be
filled out by the examiner after the candidate has marked his paper and
after the examiner has scored the results.
Tests numbered from 2 to 10 are classified as tests for
non-English-speaking persons. They were designed originally, and can
best be used, as group tests, although the directions given on the
following pages for these members of the Mentimeter family are usually
in terms of an individual examination. If it had been possible to
prepare and furnish with this book large charts on which the explanatory
samples could be exhibited and the pantomime instructions clearly
demonstrated for a group of people at the same time, the instructions
would have been printed as for a group examination. Within the confines
of a title page of a test booklet only small examples can be presented,
and therefore the instructions are for measuring one individual at a
time. Any employer, teacher, or supervisor who plans to make use of
these tests for non-English-speaking persons would do well to prepare
the demonstration material in enlarged form in order to use it in giving
the tests to groups of individuals at the same time.
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