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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APPENDIX 409 Description: See sample test. Instructions: “On the other side of this sheet (pointing to test sheet) you will find some simple arithmetic examples in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Be sure to notice all decimal points. Go down each column doing each example quickly and accurately. All right? Start.” Allow 300 seconds as a maximum time. Corrections: A key with the correct answers should be in readi ness. Examples have the following values: addition, 1 each; subtraction, 1; decimal point wrong or omitted, 1; multipli cation and division, 5 if the decimal point is right, 6 if it is wrong. Total value of test, 64 units. Record: Number of seconds taken, number of possible points (64), minus number of points lost. E. g., 10; 250 secs., 64 - 8. Rating: Apply formula II. Point of reference, the perfect completion of 64 units in 240 seconds. RU, 64, total num ber of reference units in test; Ru, reference time per unit which is 240 -f- 64 or 3.75; E, errors or omissions; T, time . . . , , RuXRU-E taken. Applying formula = = r to sample record above we have, 3-75 X (64 - 8) 250 = .84 12. Card Sorting (complex) Description: (1) 50 cards, 2” X 3" X .03”, stiff cardboard, with seven black letters posted promiscuously on each one. The cards are numbered and marked on the back so that the examiner can sort them after every trial into their exact original order and at the same time count all mistakes. (2) A sample set of eight cards, for preliminary trial. (3) A plain square cardboard, 12” X 12”, with X — K printed in one corner, X — Y in another, 5 — 6 in the third, and others in the fourth. Instructions: Place the cardboard in front of subject. “I wish

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