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an adaptation of the Alpha examination in which, aside from 

 differences in directions, the principal modification was the 

 omission of the reading by the examiner of detailed instruc- 

 tions for the several tests. This lessened the time available 

 for each test by requiring the subject to read the directions 

 for himself during the period allowed in the army form of the 

 examination for actual performance. 



Having completed the adaptation of procedure, Terman 

 presented army mental test methods to members of the edu- 

 cational committee and also discussed their practical results. 

 This demonstration and exposition led to the decision that 

 the Alpha examination should be universally used for the 

 examination of the members of the Students' Army Training 

 Corps. 



It had been definitely planned and anticipated that the 

 introduction of the methods would be directed by a few com- 

 petent individuals employed by the Committee on Education, 

 and that the actual conduct of the tests would be left to a 

 member of each institution designated by the President. 

 Everything was in readiness for the administration of tests 

 to the first group of students in the Students' Army Training 

 Corps when the signing of the armistice interrupted the work 

 of the Committee. 



Numerous institutions had meantime directed requests 

 to nearby army training camps that their examining staffs 

 representing the Division of Psychology, Surgeon General's 

 Office, make psychological examination of their men. This 

 was impossible because the Division of Psychology had dele- 

 gated responsibility for the conduct of mental tests to the 

 Committee on Education and Special Training. 



After the signing of the armistice, because of the wide- 

 spread demand for further information concerning army men- 

 tal tests and opportunity to use them in connection with the 

 Students' Army Training Corps, the Committee on Education 

 arranged through the Division of Psychology of the Surgeon 

 General's Office, to supply copies of the Alpha examination 

 blank to such institutions as desired them. About one hun- 

 dred institutions signified their desire to use the examination. 



