Compte rendu des travaux de la Chambre Syndicale pendant lʹannée 1926

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XII. Consideration of certain major problems

Collection:: Economics Books

QUESTION TRADE TESTS 227 be developed by means of the technique of psychology if they are to be at once practical and reliable. A further development of the question method is to base the questions asked on pictures or blueprints. A tool maker, for instance, might be shown a group of blueprints calling for operations on different machine tools and asked to name, offhand, various machines which are required for each. A machinist might be shown a picture of a collection of machine parts and tools and asked to name them. A third method is to give the applicant an op portunity to demonstrate his ability by giving him some representative task to perform. This type of test will be more fully discussed in a following chapter. In formulating and standardizing tests for trades and other technical occupations, too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the close cooperation between the tech nical expert and the psychologist. The former alone can supply the facts necessary for the meat of a test. However, it is equally true that the technical expert cannot, as a rule, use his knowledge in the manner required by an employment test or interview. This deficiency must be supplemented by the psychologist, whose assistance in formulating the details and standards of a test and in giving it an experimental trial, is indispensable to its success. Even when the tests to be used have already been de vised by experts elsewhere, their installation in another company should be handled with equal caution. Tech nical experts from that company should be called on to examine the proposed tests and to see whether they really apply to their work. After the necessary revisions have been made, the tests should be tried out according to the usual method to see if they actually correlate. It is

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