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...analyzer of the test scores and the initiator of this system of concentration advice is Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the University Office of Tests...
...Office of Tests, set up in 1945 under the direction of Dyer, deals with many other types of tests. It processes the results of the College Boards and makes up a predicted rank list for applicants on the basis of the Board scores. It sets up the placement tests used in many fields and the general proficiency tests for all-incoming graduate students. It also scores all objective tests used in hour and final exams...
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...