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Unit 32 : Measurement of Attitude, Aptitude, Personality and Intelligence

3. Specified Aptitude Test : These are the tests which are used to measure aptitude of a person Notes
or student in a specific field; for example, music aptitude test, teach in aptitude test, mechanical
aptitude test, art aptitude test, etc. Various specified aptitude tests have been constructed in
different fields. Such tests chiefly include foreign tests — Seashore Measures of Musical Talents,
Wings Standardised Tests of Musical Intelligence, Musical Aptitude Test, Horn Art Aptitude
Inventory, Meier Art Test, Groves Design Judgement Test, Minnesota Clerical Test, Test of
Mechanical Comprehension. And the chief tests in the Indian tests are — Mechanical Aptitude
Test, Clerical Aptitude Test, and Teaching Aptitude Test.
These tests help us know whether a student has aptitude in a specific field or not (such as in
music, art, science or mechanical fields). And if he has, in what measure. On the basis of it, he
is given educational and vocational guidance.
However, construction and administration of such tests is a difficult task, it requires specialists.

32.2.5 Uses, Need and Importance of Aptitude Tests in Education
The psychologists have expressed the fact that a child becomes that for which he has aptitude. If a
child is given opportunity to develop according to his aptitude, he progresses leaps and bounds,
and if attempt is made to develop contrary aptitudes, the child does not progress in the desired
direction and fails to obtain proficiency. The uses of aptitude tests in the field of education can be
serialised as follows :
(1) The aptitudes of the students are known.
(2) They are given educational and vocational guidance on the basis of obtained results.
32.2.6 Limitations of Aptitude Test
The development of a person does not depend only upon hereditary aptitudes, but upon so many
other facts.
(1) First, the development of a child’s aptitude depends on environment, education and training.
As such, he cannot be guided alone on the basis of obtained results of the aptitude test.
(2) Second a child’s development is also dependent on his intelligence, interest, inclination, ability
and capacity besides his aptitude. In such a condition, he cannot be given correct guidance on
the basis of aptitude tests alone.
Self Assessment

1. Multiple Choice Questions :
Choose the correct option :
(i) _______ at first developed paired Comparison technique of measuring attitude
(a) Binet (b) Thurston
(c) Guttman (d) Lickert
(ii) _______ developed the method of summating rating at first.
(a) Binet (b) Thurston
(c) Guttman (d) Lickett
(iii) _______ developed at first the method of successive difference for measurement of attitude.
(a) Thurston (b) Guttman
(c) Suffir (d) Binet
(iv) _______ at first developed the method of equal appearing intervals
(a) Thurston (b) Guttman
(c) Suffir (d) Thurston and Chave

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