Predicting Success in Draftsman Training with Short Time Limit Aptitude Tests

Hemisphere side of damage and encoding capacity

“…The subjects were first given the Employee Aptitude Survey Verbal Comprehension Test (EAS) (Ruch and Ruch, 1963) at the time of the actual test procedure. This vocabulary test was not timed but all subjects finished within ten minutes.…”

“…Test (Ruch and Ruch, 1963) is a paper-and-pencil multiplechoice vocabulary test consisting of 30 items. A word is listed followed by four other words.…”

Organizational and Situational Influences on Adjudicative Decisions

“…During this phase of the study, participants were asked to complete a battery of psychometric covariate measures including a background information sheet, the Need for Cognition Scale (NCS; Cacioppo & Petty, 1982), a Cognitive Flexibility Scale (Martin & Rubin, 1995), and the Verbal Reasoning scale fi-om the Employee Aptitude Survey (Ruch & Ruch, 1980). These measures, which are presented in Appendix A, were used to examine the possibility that individual differences, such as cognitive processing needs or verbal ability, account for significant differences in decisions made by individuals in similar organizational and situational settings.…”

“…The Employee Aptitude Survey-^Verbal Reasoning Scale (a = .80) (Ruch & Ruch, 1980) is a general logic test intended to evaluate participants' general verbal abilities. This measure consists of six sets of facts from which participants are asked to draw several conclusions for each set in a five-minute time period.…”

Chapter V: Industrial Education

“…Doppelt, Seashore, and Odgers (1959) found no indication that an effective estimate of a student's over-all success in automobile mechanics can be made from scores on the Differential Aptitude Tests; whereas, for machine shop students, the relationships were sufficiently high to permit useful predictions. Ruch and Ruch (1960) used tests from the Employee Aptitude Survey to support the hypothesis that success in draftsman training could be predicted from short time limit aptitude tests.…”