No. 2. 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 



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The Devens literacy test, Form I, was given to about 570 white and 400 negro soldiers at 

 Camp Dix in order to ascertain, first, whether adults reporting a given school grade as the highest 

 they have attained give in general better or poorer scores than children actually in that grade; 

 and, second, whether score in the Devens literacy test is a practical means of segregation. The 

 distribution of scores for the reported grades are in table 34. 



Table 34. — Devens literacy, mimeographed Form I — Camp Dix. 

 WHITE SOLDIERS. 



NEGRO SOLDIERS. 



As might be expected from the lesser homogeneity within the class-interval and the inaccuracy 

 of reported grades, the correlation between reported grades and scores in the literacy test is less for 

 soldiers than it is for school children; 0.652 for white soldiers and 0.654 for negro. The tendency 

 for adult whites to give higher scores than children of the same degree of schooling is evident. 

 The northern negroes, except in the lower grades, where they also excel children, give medians 

 about the same as those of the white scholars. From the table of median scores (Table 35) 

 these comparisons may be more readily made: 



Table 35. — Devens literacy — Median scores. 



Tables 36 and 37 show the distribution of scores in examination a for the various literacy 

 scores. 



