Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

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STENOGRAPHERS, TYPISTS, AND COMPTOMETRISTS 93 STENOGRAPHERS The tests described as being applicable to typists are ec [ually applicable to stenographers, and in some instances more so. The Trabue completion test, or the context test as it might also be called, is particularly significant, f°r the stenographer must not only be able to supply the w °tds and phrases which the person dictating fails to enunciate clearly, but she must also be able to read the sentences which she has taken down and to supply those parts which she has herself failed to record clearly. The Se nse of context is therefore of twofold importance in the stenographer. In addition, she should have a of grammatical expression, and for this purpose, a grammatical test like that given in the Appendix under paragraph 21 was chosen. It will be seen that this test calls f°r the detection and correction of certain fairly common err °rs in expression, some of them obvious and others more snbtle. The individual who can not immediately see and correct most of these errors is obviously handicapped as a s tenographer; for a good stenographer should not only be to avoid grammatical mistakes on her own part, but s he should also be quick to detect them on the part of her employer. The variations and modifications to which § r amrnar tests lend themselves are infinite. Besides the context and grammar tests the spelling test is also of great lrn P°rtance in the case of stenographers. A stenographer ^hose spelling is slipshod is a trial to her superior. The most important test, probably, which can be given to a stenographer is of her ability to take and to transcribe dictation. This is a difficult test not only to take but to gme. Two methods may be adopted. One is to dictate a certain amount of material to the candidate within a case of the knowledge

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