Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 890771383

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-10133

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Mollat, Georg http://d-nb.info/gnd/139428143

Title:: Volkswirtschaftliches Quellenbuch

Edition:: Vierte, erweiterte und vermehrte Auflage

Place of publication:: Osterwieck/Harz

Publisher:: Verlag von A. W. Zickfeldt

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 654 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweiter Teil. Handel

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LANGUAGE AND LITERACY TESTS I45 intelligence or general ability. How trenchantly this fact !s indicated by the somewhat derisive epithet gift of gab. The use made of verbal tests in the course of these ex periments has demonstrated that their value is confined to kinds of work requiring verbal ability. In the case of typists and stenographers, for example, context tests were found to be particularly apt. This was to be expected, s >nce ability in typing and in stenographic work involves a bility in the use of words. The grammar test may also be placed in this category. Verbal tests were also found to be significant in connection with the work of certain kinds pf clerks, particularly correspondence, telephone, and lr iquiry clerks. In general, verbal tests should be very S1 gnificant in all cases where verbal ability is essential. Salesmen, orators, promoters, writers, ministers, actors, entertainers, and so forth are all greatly dependent on the S'ft of words, and to the occupations and professions ''phich they represent language or verbal tests are par ticularly applicable. If verbal tests are to be applied to occupations where Verbal proficiency is not a chief requisite, they must be adapted to the limited vocabulary of the particular class °f workers to be tested. Every trade or job has certain "'ords or phrases, the names of specific tools and processes, ^hich are peculiar to it. Almost every worker is at home ln the vocabulary of his own trade, more so than in a Beneral or literary vocabulary. Therefore, instead of verbal tests consisting of general words and meanings, We can have tests made up of the words and names c haracteristic of a given job. The context test, for in stance, can be arranged for toolmakers somewhat as follows:

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