Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry S. Dyer '28, Director of the Office of Tests, mailed notices stating that freshmen would be able to take the Kuder Preference and College Board Aptitude Survey Tests. The examinations will be held February...
...also have to make sure the machine is working properly," she went on, "so we rescore several papers from each batch by hand." Each set of tests is also run through the machine twice to make sure that there have been no errors in correcting. Thus far, Dyer claimed, the correcting apparatus has never made a mistake that wasn't caught by the human scorers in his University Hall headquarters...
Mistaken as well as correct answers can be detected by Dyer's appliance. If a desperate student marked all answer blanks the machine, when set for counting errors, would turn in a score of 400 for every hundred questions...
...chief purpose up here is not marking papers," Dyer pointed out. "What we're trying to do at present is to explore individual differences by means of statistical research. We predict the academic rank of each freshman after registration and then follow up his record. Our predictions are usually 78 percent accurate within a certain area...
...Data for Dyer's research comes from five principle sources, including Kuder Preference Tests and College Board Aptitude Survey Tests, which freshmen will be asked to take on a voluntary basis shortly...