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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...
Divided into fifteen 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...
Hundreds of Freshmen who chewed their electrographic pencils over the Kuder Preference Record in December will get a scientific analysis of their likes and dislikes next week when individual results are distributed, but Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the Office of Tests, cautioned students against taking the report "too seriously...
...Kuder test consists of a series of triple-answer questions listing activities varying in scope from writing a symphony to tinkering with an electric motor, and attempts to analyze preferences in respect to specific facets of a job or profession...
Although never administered to such a large group here previously, the Kuder record has aided Dyer's office with individual cases for some time. In most instances, Dyer relates, the results have proved useful, but occasional "problem boys" who register no likes or dislikes at all are hard to advise...