Mental tests.

Mental and Scholastic Tests

This volume, one of vital importance to all interested in the problems and implications of mental testing, makes a timely reappearance in a second and enlarged edition. Here we have a detailed description and analysis of the investigations carried out by the author during his years spent as Psychologist to the London County Council. The appointment of Dr. Burt to that post in 1913 marked the be...

Vocational Tests for Mental Defectives

on the Terman Revision of the Binet Scale involve almost exclusively language ability, rote memory, appropriateness, clearness and adequacy of detail in imagery, power of conceptual thought and reasoning, those peculiarly human qualities of mind which mark off, from the defective or immature, the normal completely developed intelligence. On the other hand experiments on animal learning have sho...

Manual of Physical and Mental Tests

In the preparation of this edition, Professor Whipple has followed a plan similar to that of the previous one. His aim has not been to make a complete compilation of tests, but to present those which seem to offer most promising results. Owing to the growing interest in the formulation of tests, the material to be presented is much more extensive and more detailed elucidation is essential. Thes...

The Use and Abuse of Mental Tests

Eminent authorities are quoted as saying that mental tests are unnecessary with low grade defectives and of little value with high grade cases, and also that the opinion of an expert after a few minutes' observation and conversation is of greater value than the records of a series of tests conducted by a tyro who judges by results only. These statements contain a profound truth, but taken apart...

Dawson Mental Tests—Forms A and B