Some Empirical Tests in Vocational Selection, Vol. 49 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Herbert Wesley Rogers
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ISBN: 9781332197569
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Excerpt from Some Empirical Tests in Vocational Selection, Vol. 49 A. Tests for typists. Lahy (32), reports an experiment made with eleven typists as subjects; six women who had had from two to four years practice, and five men who had had from two to eight years practice, in typing. Measures of the following functions or processes were obtained; muscular sensibility of the two hands, speed of auditory reactions, memory for numbers and sentences, attention, and several higher processes such as imagination, abstraction, judgment and reasoning. In comparing the three good and the three mediocre women subjects it was found that the former posessed a finer threshold of tactile and muscular discrimination, a tendency of the hands to become equally strong, a better memory, fewer errors of attention, but showed longer auditory reaction times. In comparing the men subjects the same distinctions were found. This is an interesting and valuable contribution in that it stimulates work along these lines and blazes the trail, but it has not been worked out extensively enough to be practically applicable. Lough (35) reports graphical curves showing the relation between the time required to perform a letter substitution test, "habit formation test," measured after repeated trials with the test, and ability in stenography and typewriting for a group of high school students. The curves show a good degree of correspondence between performances in the test and judgments of ability in stenography and typewriting. To quote Lought "It is evident that if we give these pupils a test in habit formation first, we can determine what pupils are capable of doing good work in typewriting, and we can save some of the pupils a great amount of wear and tear, by simply allowing them to take some other work in place of typewriting. They are not adapted to the motor responses which typewriting calls for. By means of this experiment it would be possible to select those who are likely to succeed in typewriting and to give a vocation to those who would not succeed." If this test could accomplish all that Lough claims for it it would indeed be a boon to the human race but unfortunately, the necessary scientific data concerning the experiment are not given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.