The Reliability of an Abbreviated Test of Alertness

Authors

Charles R. Rostron, Iowa State College
A. R. Lauer, Iowa State CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

In certain types of work a short test of mental alertness is quite important: (1) because of the lack of time and means required to administer a full length test, and (2) because of the motivation of the examinees. The Otis Self-Administering Test has met this demand to some extent but it implies a certain amount of education and takes at least 20 minutes. A survey of test materials indicated some coml1ination of the Army Alpha and Beta tests had possibilities for this type of measuring instrument. A research was undertaken to adapt some of these types of materials to a short test of alertness.

Publication Date

1939

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

46

Issue

1

First Page

319

Last Page

320

Copyright

©1939 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Rostron, Charles R. and Lauer, A. R. (1939) "The Reliability of an Abbreviated Test of Alertness," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 46(1), 319-320.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol46/iss1/102