A Diagnostic Test of Aptitude for Clerical Office Work: Based on an Analysis of Clerical Operations |
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ABCDEFGH ability accuracy adding machine alphabetically amount analysis of clerical aptitude ratings average Barley basis battery best weighting bonus candidates cards CHART checking civil service examinations classified clerical duties clerical operations clerical performance scale clerical test coefficients combination comparable composition computations connection consideration considered copy Corn criteria criterion curves deductions for errors degree determining efficiency employes experiment factors Files cards Filing and Indexing FOLDER EXERCISE fundamental operations give given grade gross scores Henry Reeves illustration indicated intelligence intercorrelation job analysis judgment knowledge L. L. Thurstone larger number lative make-up method multiple correlation names Oats piecework possible problem record reliability sampling tests SCORES FOR 1000 selection sets of marks sheet shows simple six tests sorting standard deviation statement statistical suggested supervisor tabulating tion types of clerical typical duties variable variation various varying weighting for errors writer zero order
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Page 38 - The standard deviation, mathematically, is the square root of the average of the squares of the deviations of the individual cases from the mean.
Page 69 - The following rule for the construction of two comparable tests may be laid down: (1) sufficient fore-exercise should be provided to establish an attitude or set, thus lessening the likelihood of the second test being different from the first, due to a new level of familiarity with the mechanical features, etc.; (2) the elements of the first test should be as similar in difficulty and type to those in the second, pair by pair, as possible; but, (3) should not be so identical in word or form as to...
Page 82 - ... their course by assigning them small pieces of work similar to that which they might later be required to perform in business offices and shops. Finding addresses and numbers in a telephone directory, carrying out involved verbal instructions and directions from memory, computing calculations, recommending action on the basis of their figures, making out a trial balance, a trial chemical analysis, etc., are common forms of this type of test.
Page 82 - He writes that in the case of the miniature test the "entire work, or some selected and important part of it, is reproduced on a small scale by using toy apparatus or in some such way duplicating the actual situation which the worker faces when engaged at his task. Thus McComas, in testing telephone operators, constructed a miniature switchboard and put the operators through actual calls and responses, meanwhile measuring their speed and accuracy by means of chronometric attachments.
Page 82 - Closely related to this method of miniature performance is that of taking an actual piece of the work to be performed and sampling the candidate's ability by his success in this trial. Thus, in connection with the recommendation of clerks and assistants from among the boys in commercial high schools it is common to test their ability from time to time...
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Page 15 - ... with varying possible ranges of difficulty within themselves. Those determined upon as practically covering the entire cross-section of clerical work are as follows: 1. Checking of material for correspondence with copy or similar material, with which it is compared for sameness. 2. Selection of data on the basis of comparison. 3. Locating in an alphabetical list. 4. Classification or sorting. 5. Tabulation or selection and transfer of data. 6. Mathematical computations.
Page 82 - Some test is devised which bears real or supposed resemblance to the sort of situation met by the worker in the given occupational activity. The material is new, but the attitude and endeavor of the worker seem to be much the same.
Page 36 - If the hiring of a mechanician is not so much for the purpose of satisfying a particular foreman as it is to secure expert workmen, the correlation .80 is not only the one of theoretical importance, but is, in fact, the correct one to use in regression equations estimating expertness from trade test scores.
Page 16 - ... 1. Checking for sameness. 2. Comparing. 3. Locating alphabetically. 4. Classifying and sorting. 5. Tabulating. 6. Computing arithmetically.