The document discusses the significance of aptitude and interest tests in educational and vocational planning, highlighting their roles in evaluating student capabilities and preferences. It covers various types of tests, including mechanical, clerical, musical, and graphical art aptitude tests, along with interest inventories that help determine career paths. Additionally, it addresses the limitations of such tests and emphasizes their utility in predicting academic success and guiding individual educational choices.

1. Seminar
on
Aptitude and Interest Test
By
P.Umamaheswari
M.Sc(N) I year

2. Introduction
Education aims at all around
development of the student not merely
imparting knowledge to them.
Evaluation is the process of judging the
value or worth of an individual's
achievement or characteristics.

3. Standardized Test:
A standardized test is a test for which
content has been selected and checked
emperically for which norms has been
established, for which uniform methods
of administering and scoring have been
developed and which may be scored with
high degree of objectivity.
C.V.Good

4. Type of Test:
Test
Standardized
test
Nonstandardized
test
Aptitude Test
Interest test

5. Aptitude Test:
Definition:
Aptitude test is the examination
that attempts to determine and
measure the qualities , characterizing
by a persons way of behaviour which
serves to indicate how well he can
learn to meet and solve certain
specified kinds of problems.
- Walter V
Bingham(1957)

6. History and origin of Aptitude
Test:
 Developed during World War
 Carl Brigham 1830
 First used in recruitment of Army
 Used as a college admission test
1926
 1933 new scholarship program
 1938 college Uses SAT
 1942 because of War ,SAT became
test for all applicants
 1944 ,SAT to 3,00,000 on single day.

7. Characteristics of Aptitude Test:
 Present qualities points towards
future capacities
 Particular aptitude indicates
fitness to Particular job
 Aptitude is an abstract noun and
not a concrete object or ability
 Aptitude exist in present but
indicates future capacities.

8. Characteristics of Aptitude
Test (Continues..)
 Close relation among aptitude,
interest, inclination, and
satisfaction.
 Aptitude of different people are
different.
 Chief cause for individual difference.
 Aptitude is stationary, very few
changes can be effected.

9. Types of Aptitude Test:
Types
Scholastic
Aptitude
Test
Mechanical
aptitude
test
Musical
Aptitude
Test
Professional
Aptitude
Test
Art
Judgement
Test

10. 1.Mechanical Aptitude Test:
It is a combination of sensory and motor
capacities plus perception of spatial
relations.
Capacity to acquire information about
mechanical mater and comprehend
mechanical relationship.
Eg:
 Minnesota Mechanical Assembly Test
 Minnesota Spatial Relations Test

11. Mechanical Aptitude
test(continues)
The Revised Minnesota Paper form
Test.
 Stenquist Mechanical Aptitude Test.
 L.J.O Rourke's Mechanical Aptitude
Test.
 Bennet Tests of Mechanical
comprehension.
 A battery of Mechanical Aptitude
Test.

12. Mechanical Aptitude
test(continues)
Nature of Mechanical Aptitude Test:
 Asking the subjects to put together
the parts of Mechanical device.
 Asking to replace the cutouts of
various shapes.
 Requiring the ability to solve
problems in geometric terms.
 Asking questions concerning the
basic information about tools and
their uses.

13. Mechanical Aptitude test(continues)
Questions related physical &
Mechanical principles.
Example: 1
Which wheels are
turning counter
clockwise?
A) ABDF
B) CE
C) ADF
D) BDF

14. Mechanical Aptitude test(conti...)
Example: 2
Which ball is heaviest?
A) B B)C C)A D)cannot say

15. 2.Clerical Aptitude Test:
Perceptual ability
(Perceive words & numbers with speed
and accuracy)
+
Intellectual ability
(Grasp the meaning of the word)
+
Motor ability
(Use various types of Mechanics and
tools)

16. Clerical Aptitude Test
(continues..)
Popular clerical test:
 Detroyed clerical Aptitude
examination
 Minnesota vocational test for
clerical workers
 The clerical ability test prepared
by the department of psychology
University of Mysore
 Clerical Aptitude Test battery
 Test of clerical Aptitude

17. Clerical Aptitude Test
(continues..)
This clerical ability test will access
attention to detail, basic math, filing
and verbal skills.
This test consists of two subjects
Clerical test are part of the selection
process in occupations such as
clerk , receptionist ,and secretary
Attention to detail Ability test

18. Clerical Aptitude Test
(continues..)
Example:1
Which one is different from another
two?
A)Multzi Zoloene Frankiri
B)Multzi Zoloene Frankiri
C)Multizi Zoloene Frankiri
D)No difference

19. 3.Musical Aptitude Test:
These test have been deviced for
discovering musical talent.
Important musical aptitude test:
 seashore measure of musical talent
components:
 Discrimination of pitch
 Discrimination of intensity of
loudness
 Discrimination of time interval

20. Musical Aptitude Test (conti..)
 Dicrimination of timber
 Judgement of Rhythm
 Tone memory
10 items in this batteries are
presented by phonograph

21. Musical Aptitude Test (conti..)

22. 4.Aptitude for Graphical art:
These tests are deviced to discover the
talent for graphic arts.
Two important tests are
 The Meier art judgement test(100
B&W pictures)
 Horn art aptitude inventory
One member of each Pair is
1. Acknowledged Masterpiece
2. Slight distortion from the
Masterpiece

23. Aptitude for Graphical art
(continues..)
Select the original and aesthetic
superior work on the basis of the
shapes of the bowels .

24. 5.Test of scholastic and
professonal Aptitude.
It helps in the proper selection of
specific courses or professions like
Engineering, Medicine, laws etc.
Example:
 Stanford Scientific Aptitude Test
 Science Aptitude Test
 Moss Scholastic Aptitude Test
 Ferguson and stoddard's law
Aptitude Test

25. Test of scholastic and professonal Aptitude
(conti..)
 Tale legal AptitudeTest
 Pre-Engineering Aptitude Test
 Minnesota Engineering Analogical Test
Coxe - Orleans prognosis Test of Teaching
Ability
 Teaching Aptitude Test
 Shah's Teaching Aptitude Test

26. Test of scholastic and
professonal Aptitude(conti..)
SAT Test has 4 sections
 Reading section
 Writing section
 Language section
 Mathematics section
Subjects involved in SAT
(i)English (ii)History (iii)Mathematics
(iv)Science (v)Language with listening Test

27. Utility of Aptitude Test:
 Guidance service
 Educational and vocational selection
 Anticipate future potentialities or capacity
of the individual
 Guidance and counselling program
 Entrance examination
 Combined with other informations received
from interest inventory, personality test
under cumulative records

28. Importance of Aptitude Test:
Aptitude Test provide information that
helps in determining
 Learning readiness
 Individualizing Instructions
 Organizing classroom groups
 Identifying under achievers
 Diagnosing Learning problems
 Help students in their educational
and vocational plans

29. Importance of Aptitude Test
(continues..)
 To predict success to some degree
 To Measure the probability of success
in an activity
 Valuable tool for working with
handicapped children.
 Provides strengthened weakness of
the person.

30. Contemporary trend in Aptitude
Test:
 General aptitude test battery
 Differential Aptitude Test battery
General aptitude test battery:
 Developed by the Employment
Service Bureau of USA
 It has 12 test
• 8 - paper pencil test
• 4 - use of simple equipment

31. General Aptitude Test Battery (cont..)

32. General Aptitude Test Battery (continues..)
Successful multiple Aptitude batteries particularly
for the purpose of job classification
Differential Aptitude Test battery
It is developed by the US Psychological Corporation
It is available in Two forms

33. Differential Aptitude Test Battery
(continues..)
 Verbal reasoning
 Numerical ability
 Abstract
reasoning
 Special relations
 Mechanical
reasoning
 Clerical speed
and accuracy
 Language uses for
spelling and
grammar

34. Differential Aptitude Test Battery
(continues..)
Uses:
 Educational and Vocational Guidance to
Secondary School children
 Predicting Academy success
Future scope of Aptitude Test:
 Employers assess capacity of employees
 Student understand their own abilities
 Changing carrier

35. Advantages of Aptitude Test:
To the interviewer:
 Saves time
 Reliable
 Cost effective and reused
 Determine the right applicant.
To the Applicant:
 Feel less pressure
 Available on Online

36. Advantages of Aptitude Test
(continues...)
 Practice reading to find answer.
 Proper choice
 Educational Guidance
To the Administrators
 Future scholastic achievement
 Compare performance
 Provide strength and weakness
 Admission and selection

37. Limitations of Aptitude test:
 Physical, social, Emotional environment
is different from actual environment in
college , chances of wrong prediction.
 Gives prediction of probability only.
 Never any certainity that prediction will
always come true.

38. Aptitude and Nurse
Nurses requires certain special aptitude
Manual Dexterity Practical bed side
nursing
Speed All nursing task
Linguistic ability Examination easier
Sports, arts,music Rehabilitation of
Patients
Numerical Aptitude Calculate ththe doses
of Drugs
Mechanical Aptitude Using apparatus,
monitors,ventilators

39. Aptitude Test and Nurse Teacher
The nurse educator determines
 The Learning rereadiness of the
student.
 Identify under achievers
 Diagnosing the learning problem
of the student
 Help students intheir educational
& Vocational plan
 Help to measure the probability
of success in an activity.

40. Interest Test:
Meaning:
Interest is a feeling of likening,
associated with a reaction, either
actual or imagined to specific thing
or situation.
-Jones.

41. Interest Test:
Definition:
A Test that determines a person's
preferences for specific fields or
activities .
An interest inventory is a testing
instrument designed for the purpose of
measuring and evaluating the level of
an individuals interest in or preference
for a variety of activities also known
as interest test. -Freeman

42. Types of Interest Test:
Extrensic Intrensic
Pleasurable
emotions
Real attraction
Connected
with purpose
or goal
Connected
with activity
itself
eg.
Fame,name,
Continuous
and permanent

43. Types of Interest Test (continues..)
Other types:
Expressed Interest:
 Expressed their personal link(I love
sports)
 May vary from time to time.
 Depends upon the maturity of the
person.
Manifest Interest :
 Not expressed but observed by others
Measured Interest:
 Revealed by Interest Test

44. Assessment of Interest Test:
Jackson vocational interest survey
work role work style
 Contains 34 basics interest scale
 Applicable for both men and
women
Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
 Developed by frederick Kuder
 Measures the respondent's relative
levels of interest in 10
occupational area

45. Conti..
Occupational
Areas
Out Door
Mechanical
Computational
Scientific
Persuasive
Musical
Artistic
Literacy
Musical
Social
services

46. Conti..
Self directed search: Jhon Holland
with 6 personality factors (RIASEC)
It is a carrier
Interst Test that
asks
 Aspirations
 Activities
 Skills
 Interst In
differentJobs

47. Conti..
Strong camel interest inventory:
 Developed by E K Strong in 1920
 It is a career planning tool that
measures
interest over several categories
 School subjects
 Work activities
 Leisure activities

48. Conti..
Minnesota Vocational Interest
Inventory:
 It was developed by Kenneth E
Clerk and campbell
 provide systematic information
on the interest patterns of men
in non professional occupations
 It is an aid for counsellors

49. Conti..
Campbell Interest and Skill survey:
CISS
Skill
scales
Occupa
-tional
Scales
Basic
Interest

50. Assessment of Interest Test:
Career assessment inventory:
 Developed by Charles be Johansson.
 Help student to learn about themselves.
 Identify careers would be good fit based
on their interest.
Thrustone Vocational Interest schdule:
 Checklist
 Systematically clarify their understanding
 Of Vocational Interest

51. Merits of Interest Inventories
 High lights the area of strength and
possible oppurtunities
 Gives measure to personal
competence and predicts success for a
job
 Selecting the right competencies to
boost the professional development
 The examinar gains a better
understanding of the students
knowledge, interest and motivations

52. Limitations of Interest
Inventories
 Some Interest test reveals the ability
 Reveals the interest that is present at
the time of test and not afterwards
 At the time of testing, a particular
interest may not developed fully
 Accuracy of areport still a problem
 An occupation is not one interest but
a combination of activitiesor interest

53. Summary and Conclusion:
These test are used to determine
how a successful an individual will
be at aparticular task or which
areas of strength exist within the
individuals skills set that might be
helpful in making career or other
decisions.

54. Theory application:
General system theory:
Input
Assess the
Mechanical
Aptitude
test among
the students
Throughput
Asking the
students to
replace the
cutouts by
providing the
various
shapes.
Output
Showing the
interest in
the specific
field
Feed Back

55. Journal Abstract
Title:
Aptitude Test’s Predictive Ability for
academic Success in Psychology Student.
Author:Farida Agus setiawati
Study design: Quantitative
Method of selecting sample: Cluster Random
sampling
Methods of data collection: Test and
Documentation techniques

56. conti..
Abstract:
In access environment, student interest diversity ii study programme
is low.
RIASEC profiles of students and programmes correlate .70 on an
average.
Study program with low interest diversity- higher autonomous
motivation
Study programe with higher interest diversity- Higher controlled
motivation
Interest diversity can effect the study program results.