Description - The Use of Psychological Tests in the Educational and Vocational Guidance of High School Pupils Volume 1 by William Martin Proctor
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...pupils will be discussed in this chapter. The Employment Manager And The Vocational Counselor The application of psychological tests to the selection of men for particular jobs is well along in the experimental stage.1 The employment manager has demonstrated the value of such tests when used in the selection of employees. If the tests are carefully devised to discover whether the applicants have certain essential mental qualifications for the kind of work they will be called upon to perform, and if final selection is made from the few who make high scores in the tests, the results are likely to be satisfactory to the employer. When in addition to specific mental tests, appropriate trade or performance tests are given, the employment manager or personnel expert can select from the highest 25 percent of applicants with reasonable assurance that they will make good at the tasks assigned to them. These tests tend effectively to sift out the undesirables, to reduce the amount of labor turnover, and to secure for the employer a higher grade of employees. The person who selects men for a particular occupation needs only to know the qualifications for success in that occupation. He can plan his tests with a view to eliminating all those who do not measure up to the established standard. If only five out of one hundred applicants are selected and they all prove to be adapted to their work the tests by which they were selected are counted as satisfactory. The ninety-five rejected applicants do not concern the employment manager. 1 Link, H. C. Employment psychology. New York: Macmillan Co., 1919. The vocational counselor, however, has to think of the ninetyfive as well as the five. His field is a broad one. He is called upon to advise people possessing every variety o...
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