The relationship between age and test performance of applicants to a technical-industrial high school.

Abstract

B ECAUSE of the concentration of large industries in Rochester, New York, with such companies as Eastman Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, Ritter, and Taylor Instrument, there has been a steadily growing demand for training in the technical skills Trade training classes and technical schools in the city have grown rapidly, so rapidly in fact that the technical and industrial high school found it necessary in 1939 to establish objective criteria for the selection of the most capable pupils from the many who applied, because facilities were not available for the accommodation of all.A testing program was, therefore, established for the selection of pupils. Since individual tests of mechanical abilities, such as the Minnesota Mechanical Abilities Tests, could not t>e used because of the limitations of time and personnel, a battery of group tests was used The tests were: The Mac-•Quarrie Test of Mechanical Ability, The Revised Minnesota Paper Pormboard Test (Series AA), and the Revised Alpha Intelligence Examination (Wells revision No. 7) An intelligence test was included, since academic subjects are, of course, part of the curriculum in a technical-industrial high school and verbal intelligence is known to have discriminating value for academic courses 1 The author wishes to express his appreciation to the following persons in the Rochester Public Schools who made this study possible-Miss A.

Predicting Success in Trade and Vocational School Courses: Review of the Literature

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Chapter III: Applications of Intelligence Tests

“…Mitrano (58), using the Revised Alpha Test, found that of the pupils applying for admission to a technical-industrial high school, the mean agegroup scores were: 100 at age thirteen; 91 at age fourteen; 82 at age fif teen ; 78 at age sixteen. The age-groups fell in the same order in their per formances on the Revised Minnesota Paper Formboard Test and the Mc-Quarrie Test of Mechanical Ability.…”