Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final tabulations of the six-hour aptitude tests given last term are almost completed and will be available shortly, Dean Henry S. Dyer, '27 director of the Office of Tests, said yesterday...
Although the tests measured aptitudes in 20 fields, the 248 who took the tests will receive results in only 10 because of the immense amount of clerical work necessary, Dyer said. When the tests will again be given next spring, the Office expects to correct them by IBM machines, he added...
Though the tests are twice as long as any finals ever are, they will definitely not be so painful, since no one can fail. "There are no loaded questions in them," said Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the Department of Tests, under whose specifications the examinations were prepared...
...short sections, the tests will consist of mostly multiple choice questions. Unlike the Kuder test, given to Freshmen last term, the new examination will test ability and not interest. Eventually, the tests will become permanent, in order to aid Freshmen in making the proper choice of fields of concentration, Dyer said...
...experimental part of this work will not be completed immediately. Relationships between last month's findings and aptitude tests as well as a long range comparison with actual professions entered by men who took the test will be the subjects of study by Dyer's office...