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TEST ADMINISTRATION
Preliminary details in test administration. The examiner's attitude. The
testing room. Procedure in testing.
NEw tests must themselves be tested. To evaluate the
examinations he has devised, the investigator uses them to
obtain scores made by workers of different known levels of
vocational accomplishment. He then examines the results
to determine which instruments most successfully differentiate
 one level of accomplishment from another. This chapter
 treats of the measuring of these selected workers as a
step toward the validation of the examinations.
The administration of rating scales and questionnaires
has already been discussed in part in the chapters which
deal with their development. Tests require far more care
in their administration. The conditions need not be as
rigidly standardized as those of a laboratory experiment,
but tact and courtesy are more essential than in the laboratory.

The investigator should ordinarily leave to the executive
most immediately concerned with the success of the investigation
 the matter of arranging the time of testing and
insuring the presence of the employees. If he is testing for
ability in some minor occupation, he should arrange with
the foreman or supervisor the details of time of testing, and
this executive will notify the men when to appear.
The investigator would do well to think how he himself
would feel in the man’s place. He would be wondering
what this was all about and how it was going to benefit him.
Will a low performance in the test count against him with
his supervisor? Will a high score be used to make him

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