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Aptitude testing

"The practice of psychological testing has advanced with great rapidity within recent years. The early crude methods are being replaced by scientific procedures, and the early naive views in regard to the test-aptitude relation and the possibilities of tests are giving way before more adequate theories and more sober expectations. In a word, aptitude testing, like medicine and engineering, is ceasing to be a job for amateurs and is becoming the work of technically trained professionals. It has been the purpose of the author to include within a convenient space two of the essentials of the training for aptitude work: (1) an account of the fundamental principles of aptitude testing and (2) an intelligible description of the most effective and the most economical methods of constructing batteries of aptitude tests. Specifically the book is designed as a text for university and college classes in aptitude testing and as a general handbook for those engaged in aptitude work of all kinds, whether in the form of vocational guidance, general personnel work, or employment selection"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

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