Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing to provide the basis for concentration advice was started in 1946. Its purpose, as expressed by Dyer, was "to get a series of interest and aptitude tests that could be used to predict the field of concentration in which a student would succeed best...
...Dyer points out that up to that time, advice on concentration had been purely subjective. The idea of these new tests was to provide a check by having information on how students who have entered the various fields in the past have done on a series of objective tests...
...Dyer has the class of 1950, the first class to take the tests, classified by summa, magna, and cum laude, graduation without honors, late graduation, and no graduation. By comparing how these classes of students in the various fields of concentration did on the tests, he can predict what field of concentration would seem to be the best for a particular student taking the tests this year...
...first is the "general calibre" of the student, taken from the predicted rank list. Dyer points out that certain fields require more general ability than others. For example, students concentrating in Mathematics have an average predicted rank of Group III, while Government concentrating have an average Group IV ranking...
...second factor--interest--is ascertained from the Kuder Preference test. As Dyer puts it, this, test is simply, "a device for helping you make a detailed analysis of your own likes and dislikes for various kinds of activities...