vi CONTENTS 2. Apparatus for presenting the Stimuli to the Eye and for controlling the Time of Exposure. (a) The Lens System. (b) The Exposure Apparatus. (c) The Stimulus Box. D. Results. i. By the Older Methods. (a) Broca and Sulzer's Method. (b) Exner's Method. (c) Kunkel's Method. 2. By the New Methods'. (a) Method I. (b) Method 2. (c) Method 3. IV. CONCLUSION.
This study was made to determine if certain tests of the Bureau of Personnel Research of Carnegie Institute of Technology would serve first, as a basis for the selection of applicants for courses in stenography and comptometer operation m a technical night school; and second, to determine if from a group of applicants it was possible to select successful comptometer and stenographic operators without an extended tryout. That is, the first purpose demanded that failures be eliminated and the second that sure successes be selected.Both purposes have been accomplished and the tests are to be used next fall as entrance requirements for the technical school, and as soon as employment is resumed 1 by the firm interested, as guidance in hiring comptometer and stenographic operators.Both because of the problem presented and because of the methods of attack, which differ from those previously used, the study seems of special interest. The correlation between efficiency in the tests and efficiency in work has been the prime consideration in former studies. 2 In this study, because of the nature of the problem, correlations became merely a byproduct, and critical scores the fundamental consideration. Also, a battery of tests has been used rather than a single test, with the idea in mind, that the more measures we could get of a person, the higher would be our ratio of success m selecting promising applicants.The technical night school where the tests were given was in close connection with a large manufacturing firm and practically all of the teachers held positions in the firm and were therefore well able to judge the quality of work that would be acceptable in the business world. The ages of the students ranged from 16 to over 30. Practically every nationality was 1 On account of the business depression, the firm is doing practically no employing at the present time.
With this issue, we begin what may become a regular feature of the Journal of Applied Psychology. We plan to publish brief descriptions of applied psychology in action to be written by psychologists who are applying psychology in real life situations. Brief news notes concerning applied psychology in action from a variety of sources will be published. Descriptions of procedures and techniques believed to be effective, even though desirable experimental controls may not have been possible, will be included. Thus, a forum for the interchange of practical information will be provided practitioners of applied psychology. In part, this new feature of the Journal of Applied Psychology attempts to meet the challenge contained in Dr. Marion A. Bills' presidential address before the Division of Industrial and Business Psychology last September. It is appropriate, therefore, to begin with the publication of her provocative address.
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