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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THE VOCATIONAL VALUE OF TESTS 177 and practice in stenographic work, and in order to discover this, the dictation and transcribing tests are given. If these tests show that the candidate possesses the requisite education or acquired ability, it may be advisable to engage her. However, in order to know still more accu rately her real value, it is desirable to give her tests calculated to gauge her innate or natural ability. The number-letter substitution test and the alphabetical-filing test are generally given for this purpose and are tests of speed and accuracy of a kind usually involved in sten ographic work. The topical filing and hard-directions tests are tests to measure the individual’s reasoning or analytical ability. If the candidate does well in all of the tests, she is quite valuable, for being well trained and possessing natural ability, she is likely to develop into a v ery capable worker. Now, let us suppose that the candidate shows by her performance in the tests for acquired ability that she has had a very poor training in dictation and transcribing. Shall she be engaged or not? If, in addition to her poor training in these respects, she also shows lack of education ln spelling, grammar, and the fundamentals of the com mon-school education, it would probably be unwise to e ngage her for stenographic work. And, if in addition to her poor education, she displays a lack of innate ability by her performance in the group of tests given for this pur pose, the decision would be quite obvious. On the other hand, if the applicant has natural ability, a good common- s ehool education, and is lacking only in ability to take fetation and transcribe, it is very advisable to engage her for a trial, or for special training in the fields in which she Is Weak. Her inability in dictation and transcribing may ho due to poor training or to poor opportunities, and may

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