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



The correlation equation results in the following relations: 



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The maximum on the group test is 30; 28 points, however, correspond to the maximum of the individual test, 45. 

 The average score in the group test for 111 American-born college students, graduate and undergraduate, men and 

 women, at Columbia University is 26.45. 



III. CAMP PRACTICE. 



Form of test used. — The individual examination has the advantage over the group in that (a) it has a better range; 

 (b) it is more accurate; (c) it is subject to the additional control that is true of all individual examinations; and (d) it 

 furnishes the clinical examiner with illuminating information about his subject before he begins an intelligence 

 examination. 



When the numbers to be examined are few the individual test is always used. It averages about rive minutes. 

 When the numbers are large, the group test is given, the papers inspected, and all men falling within the non-English 

 limits or nearly within these limits are given the individual examination. When the groups are large and the time 

 is short, the group test alone is used, the papers inspected, and the men scoring low marked at once as "non-English." 



Procedure within the development battalions group. — Men report to the Psychological Examining Board for intelli- 

 gence and language ratings as soon as assigned to the development battalions group. All men scoring C, D, or E in 

 the language test are rated "non-English" and reported as such to development battalions group headquarters. The 

 reason for the inclusion of the C grade in the non-English group is that the requirement for "graduation" from the 

 non-English battalion corresponds to the passage out of the C group into the IS group. In other words, every man 

 who can not pass the "graduating" examination of this battalion is assigned to this battalion until he can pass it. 



Procedure with the draft, attached to depot brigade, before mustering. — All beta men are given a language test. The 

 papers are inspected and all D and E men are marked "N E." The Camp Personnel Adjutant at Camp Upton does 

 not believe that it is feasible at the present time to include the C grade of linguality in the non-English group in 

 the case of the draft; too large a proportion of the draft would be sent to the non-English development battalion. 

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