MEASUREMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION. By Ben Wood. (Harrap. is. 6d.)
AMERICA is generous with her education ; a college career is possible there for everyone, but a doubt is beginning to arise
whether a great deal of this education is not wasted on the average student. There has been put together, therefore, an almost perfect method of measuring it student's capacity for benefiting from a college career. The Thorndyke Intelligence Tests show_ not only his ability and potential intelligence, but also the lines along which he will gain most from education. It is impossible " cram " for , these tests,
and a few American colleges (following the example of Columbia) are using them as a kind of auxiliary entrance examination. Obviously their general application would do away with a tremendous waste of energy and release much force and talent that is now lost. It is unfortunate that this book, which is an analysis of the tests, with their history and an account of their results and adoption, is written in a kind
of educationists' shorthand of symbols which is almost incomprehensible to the layman, for these tests will have a distinct effect upon the conditions in which we live, as som: as we have enough knowledge of them to ask for their appli- cation in our own schools and colleges.
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