MENTAL ABILITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1924, Page 3

MENTAL ABILITY.

TEST OF ROYS. WELLINGTON. March 1The Education Department yes te rimy Put into operation, what is known as the group tost of mental ability anmng hoys about to enter a technical school. IT‘is the first time the test nas been taken in N.Z., and the result, m the |V. m of a schedule similar to a census should afford some interesting conclusions. The system takes its.source in a,, American University, and has opnated with marked success m Cnlitoriiin. It has been tried out m •> small way in one or two States in Australia and in parts of Great Britain But this is the first occasion m which the whole country has tested its candidates at a given time. The American, Australian and British results are m the hands of the Department who wid he able to determine how the mental ability of N.Z. boys compares with those in the countries named. Tee Apprenticeship Committee and Labour Department- have asked to placed in tomb with the statistical computations derived from the test. Ti'j-- test was divided into 10 f 'h’ s ~° s to determine for general information the host type of answer to a sum da r question of the meaning of words, arithmetic, meaning of a sentence elassiiieatir.ii and a number of series each of ten tests contained from a dozen to twenty questions. ____