Testing Service

Through the facilities of a newly created Testing and Consulting Service, Dartmouth undergraduates are being given the opportunity of measuring their various aptitudes, special skills, interests and achievements, thereby determining, to a certain degree, their chances of success or failure in different vocations. While the tests given are not final as a guide to a selection of a vocation, they allow the student to compare his own scoring pattern in a particular field with that of a person who has proven himself successful in the field.

A committee, under the direction of Professor Clark W. Hdrton, assistant in educational research, conducts the service on a purely voluntary basis with both group and individual tests being given. Upon completion of the tests, the organization discusses with the individual student his scores and their educational and vocational implications.

The first test, being given this month, gives students a chance to compare their characteristics with those of men successful in some 24 different vocations. Other tests to be offered during the present semester include General Culture, Mechanical Aptitude, Engineering Classifications, and the Graduate Record Examination.

While the Testing Service is in its present experimental state, it will offer only tests for which there is a general demand, but in time it is hoped that a complete program for vocational and educational guidance can be set up.