FRESHMEN TURN IN AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE TEST GRADES
Fourteen members of the class of 1925 turned in A plus scores in the specially prepared intelligence test given to the class by the Department of Psychology on Oct. 27. These, together with the gradually diminishing returns of the other 553 men who took the test, indicate a class of average abilities.
In the tests taken by the class of 1924, although the average mark was 149 out of a possible 212, the marks did not run uniformly from the highest, which was 202, to the lowest, which was 87, but they clustered about 149. In this year's tests, however, the average mark was 57 out of a possible 110 with the marks spread out almost uniformly from 19, the lowe st mark, to 103, the highest mark.
After studying the results of the previous examinations the Department of Psychology decided that the Army Alpha tests were too easy for college men and incorporated a few of the good points of the Alpha exams, in a new freshman intelligence test. The new test contains three sets of questions all of which bear on a successful college career.
The first, "The Comprehension of Prose Test," requires answers to 20 questions concerning a page of difficult prose matters and gives an estimate of the student's ability to read text books in the right manner. The second test, "Completion of Definitions," involves both a wide range of information and the ability to use it in the solution of original problems. The final test, "The Directions Test," determines the ability of the student to follow the directions given to him.
Since the tests given this year are entirely different from those given to other freshman classes, it is extremely difficult to make a comparison as to the merits of the respective classes. However, the men showed up well as an average, only 14 men turning in papers of 30 or below.
The names and grades of men making marks of 90 or over follow: D. W. Moore 103, A. W. Edson 96, M. R. Hodge 96, J. D. Spring 95. L. D. Brace 92, C. F. Haywood 92, B. F. Jones 92, H. S. Talbot 92, F. K. Heyman 91, E. W. Roessler 91, J. W. Sanborn 91, F. S. Wilder 91, P. B. Tanner 90, P. E. Williamson 90.
