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

Collection:: Economics Books

THE TECHNIQUE OF GIVING TESTS 163 quick dash like this”—and here he makes a quick, straight hne, about an eighth of an inch long, in the appropriate place—“after each number which contains,” etc. The instance described is only a single, small detail the process of developing directions for a certain test. Every set of directions is filled with minute details of a similar nature. In fact, it is practically impossible to w °rk out a set of directions which shall be perfect at the °utset. In developing the directions for the tests which yere used in the present experiments and which are given, ln part, in the Appendix, it was the practice to keep a blank card of directions for each test. This card was c arried with the test to which it belonged, and whenever a Mistake or a possible ambiguity in the wording of the directions was noted, that fact was recorded on this card. this manner, through a long series of tests and actual experiences, the best possible set of directions for a par ticular test was arrived at. It is safe to say that a set of directions for any one test can not be made perfect or fool proof until it has been tried on at least fifty different subjects. No one, more quickly than the psychologist, Earns the richness of meaning which even the simplest ' Vy ord contains. No one, therefore, should be better able t° guard against mistakes arising from this source. To minimize the mistakes likely to arise from the ambiguity of words, the psychologist has several courses °pen to him. One of these has just been illustrated. It c °nsists of supplementing his words with the action "'hich he intends the subject to perform. A simple demon- oration like this is often more lucid than a paragraph of ^utds. However, whenever the examiner assumes the burden of demonstrating his own directions, care must be taken always to demonstrate according to some standard

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