A Fully Automated Intellectual Test

Abstract

A number of writers, e.g. Miller (1968) and Peck & Gathercole (1968), have commented upon the use of automated testing techniques. Whilst methods such as those of Heron (1953) and Zenkteler (1968) represent efforts to make personality inventories more palatable and to simplify scoring, little evidence is available concerning the use of automated testing of intellectual functioning. Gedye (1966) has reported the use of an automated technique administering a novel procedure but not one readily compared with conventional intellectual testing methods. Experiments with automated forms of Perceptual Mazes and Raven's Matrices have been employed by Elithorne and Berger (personal communications, 1969).