The Status of Tests for the Measurement of Clerical Aptitude 1An address given at the meeting of the National Vocational Guidance Association, Feb. 21, 1930, Atlantic City, N.J.
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a given aptitude, it must be given to persons known to possess that aptitude, and their standings in the test must correspond with their working proficiency. The question that always perplexes the investigator is: What shall I use an an index of their proficiency? In technical terms, what shall be the criterion? The criterion, according to Burtt, "is an index of occupational proficiency which is used in evaluating the tests designed to predict that proficiency."3 If the criterion is inadequate then the test can
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