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Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
THE NINE APTITUDES MEASURED BY THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY ARE INTELLIGENCE, VERBAL APTITUDE, NUMERICAL APTITUDE, SPATIAL APTITUDE, FORM PERCEPTION, CLERICAL PERCEPTION, MOTOR COORDINATION, FINGER DEXTERITY, AND MANUAL DEXTERITY. THIS MANUAL PRESENTS (1) PERCENTILE EQUIVALENTS OF APTITUDE OR STANDARD SCORES FOR ADULTS, 10TH GRADERS, AND 9TH…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Codification, Employment Potential
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1966
NORMS ARE SHOWN IN TERMS OF CUTTING SCORES FOR EACH OF THE APTITUDES FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANT FOR THE OCCUPATION. THE STANDARD ERROR OF AN OBTAINED SCORE FOR EACH APTITUDE OF THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY IS APPROXIMATELY SEVEN POINTS. INCLUDED IN THE MANUAL ARE (1) AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO APTITUDE TEST BATTERIES, (2) AN INDUSTRIAL INDEX TO…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Codification, Employment Potential
Flanagan, John; Lewis, George – J Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Lower Class
Frazier, William E.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this project was to derive information relating student aptitudes to the accomplishment of specific performance objectives in an identified time frame within selected occupational training programs. Answers to the following questions were sought: What tasks within a given occupation can be performed by educationally disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedBetsworth, Deborah G. – Journal of Career Assessment, 1999
Employed women (n=198) completed the General Aptitude Test Battery and Minnesota Ability Estimation Questionnaire. They were significantly more likely to underestimate their general learning, verbal, and spatial ability; form perception; and motor coordination. This tendency was related to the realism of their occupational choice. (SK)
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude, Career Choice, Employed Women
Download full textEDINGTON, EVERETT D.; KUNTZ, ROBERT H. – 1964
DURING 1962-63, 16 FARM MECHANICS RETRAINING SCHOOLS WERE SET UP IN OKLAHOMA UNDER THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1961 TO TRAIN 225 MEN WHO WERE EITHER UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED. THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WAS ANY CORRELATION BETWEEN THE TEST SCORES AND SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS USED IN SELECTION OF THE TRAINEES AND THEIR…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Machinery Occupations, Aptitude
Stanley, Charlton S. – 1968
A study of the relationship between certain test scores and probable training and vocational success was made. Examined were three major training areas: power sewing machine, nurse aide, and clerical office work. Six tests were tested for their ability to predict success: the WAIS Revised Beta; Purdue Pegboard; English, California Surveys of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adults, Aptitude, Disadvantaged
BOATNER, EDMUND B.; AND OTHERS – 1964
TO INVESTIGATE THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT OF THE DEAF, FOUR OBJECTIVES WERE STUDIED--(1) THE CURRENT OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OF YOUNG DEAF ADULTS IN NEW ENGLAND, (2) THE CURRENT FORMAL VOCATIONAL PREPARATION AVAILABLE TO THEM, (3) THEIR VOCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS, APTITUDES, AND OPPORTUNITIES, AND (4) THE NEED AND DEMAND FOR A REGIONAL TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Career Choice, Deafness, Educational Needs
