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
In giving a group test it is practically always necessary to obtain the
identifying information called for on the title page before the booklets
are opened or turned over. There is a distinct tendency for candidates
to try to glance at the pages which follow unless specific directions
are given as the papers are distributed that this must not occur.
The procedure in giving Mentimeters 2 to 10 to people who can understand
and even read English is very little different from the procedure to be
used with the foreign-language-speaking groups.
Mentimeters 11 to 15 cannot be given as group tests because of the great
amount of writing which this would entail. Group tests are most
efficient when candidates are required to do nothing other than check
the correct answers without having to write anything.
Mentimeters 16 to 30 may be given as individual examinations, although
they are planned as group examinations and the results obtained from
their use as group examinations will be superior to the results obtained
from their use as individual examinations.
In giving all of these tests it is very important that the printed forms
prepared by the publishers be employed and that the directions which
follow be carefully observed. The stencils furnished with the printed
test booklets make it possible for a clerk of average mental capacity to
mark and score the results of these examinations with great rapidity and
with just as much accuracy as could be obtained by specialists working
without such stencils. These stencils and the group method make
psychological examinations economical of administration.
The list of Mentimeter tests is as follows:
THE MENTIMETER TESTS
TEST FOR INFANTS
1. Typical Performance
TESTS FOR NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS
2. Pictorial Absurdities
3. Maze Threading
4. Dot Pattern Correction
5. Dividing Geometric Figures
6. Completion of Form Series
7. Checking Identity of Numbers
8. Digit-Symbol Substitution
9. Completion of Number Relation Series
10. Addition Tests
INDIVIDUAL TESTS FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS
11. Memory for Numbers
12. Repeating Numbers Backward
13. Memory for Sentences
14. Speaking Vocabulary
15. Word Discrimination
GROUP TESTS FOR PERSONS WHO READ ENGLISH
16. Naming Opposites
17. Spelling Tests
18. Range of Information
19. Reading: Vocabulary
20. Reading: Directions
21. Reading: Interpretation
22. Disarranged Sentences
23. Completion of Sentences
24. Analogies or Mixed Relations
25. Handwriting Tests
26. English Composition
27. Poetic Discrimination
28. Arithmetic Reasoning
29. Practical Judgment
30. Logical Conclusions.
MENTIMETER NO. 1
TYPICAL PERFORMANCES OF YOUNG CHILDREN
_Character of the Test._
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