CHAPTER 18. 



OFFICERS' TRAINING CAMPS AND NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS' SCHOOLS. 



Systematic psychological examination of the officers' training schools began with the 

 camps of the third series. Few camps had psychological staffs at this time, so examiners were 

 sent out, each examiner to test the men in several camps. In this way approximately 1,500 

 men were tested in 22 different schools. Examination a was used in this testing exclusively. 



Table 414 ^hows the distribution of letter grades in the individual camps and table 415 

 presents the same facts on a percentage basis, together with median scores. Figure 63 

 expresses diagrammatically facts shown in table 415 with the camps arranged in order of 

 the number of A and B grades obtained. There is a wide range of variation both in the 

 median scores and in the percentage of A and B grades. There are four times as many A 

 grades made in Devens as in Bowie or in Oglethorpe. If the camps are divided into two 

 groups, the grade D is three times as frequent in the lower as in the upper half. In the main, 

 the southern camps rank much lower than those of the North. Camp Wadsworth is the only 

 exception to this rule. 



Table 414. — Distribution of letter grades in the individual officers' training camps of the third series. 



Table 415. — Percentage distribution of letter grades and median alpha scores in the individual officers' training camps of the 



third series. 



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