no. 2] PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 



EXAMINATION a. 



343 



EXAMINATION ALPHA. 



Custer 



Dix 



Creenleaf 



Meigs 



Wheeler 



Nine camps - 



June draft.. 

 April draft. 



Motor mechanics 



Dixie division, June increment, Illinois and Michigan. 

 Unseleeted draft 



551 



400 



400 



7,029 



653 



0.988 

 .993 

 9S8 

 .992 

 .984 

 .994 



For use in the Student Army Training Corps the directions for giving the alpha tests were 

 simplified as shown, pages 200 to 201. The change allowed the examinee to get the prohlem 

 merely by reading the directions at the top of the page, the examiner not reading them for 

 him except in the case of tests 1 and 7. All the tests except 1 and 7 received an additional 

 time allotment of ten seconds for compensation. This simplification of procedure was deemed 

 advisable because of the plan of the Committee on Education and Special Training to have the 

 tests given in Student's Army Training Corps units by members of the local faculties. 



Some of the effects of the revision can be seen from a comparison of the score distributions 

 for the alpha tests in the case of 987 unselected recruits from 9 camps with the score dis- 

 tributions of the corresponding tests of examination a for the Three hundred and third Engineers, 

 Dix. These two groups were of nearly the same size. Total scores and the scores on the test 

 of arithmetical reasoning (which was left practically unchanged in the revision) indicate that 

 the Dix group was a considerably higher grade group than the other — a fact which should be 

 borne in mind in comparing the score distributions of the tests. The Dix group contains an 



