# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S513
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512 - : , Report of Board for Higher Education

E. Psychological Testing Program

As a first step in a Synod-wide testing program, it was necess
to gain an insight into the intellectual abilities of our own studen
During the first semester of the 1941-42 school year the Ame
Council on Education Psychological Test was given to all coll
freshmen at six preparatory colleges, the two teachers’ colleges 4
the Springfield Seminary. This test yielded information concerning
the quantitative thinking ability and the language ability of all coll f

The results of these psychological tests are most gratifying. They
indicate quite definitely that we have a superior group of students

their quantitative thinking ability. Undoubtedly the large anioun
of language work which our students take in the lower division,
especially in the preparatory colleges, gives them a rather remark.
able ability in this field. Quantitative thinking ability is not much
above the average.

The one institution-scoring below the country’s average admits
general students, and this group has a lower mental ability than’
the pretheological students enrolled by this institution. No censure
however, attaches to this school for its Policy of admitting this type
of student so long as they do not act as a dead weight on the pers
formance of the balance of the class.

F. Sophomore Testing Program

Since the intellectual ability of our students is very considerably
above normal, one might surmise that their actual achievement would
likewise be quite superior. ‘

.In order to secure an objective measure of the actual achiev,
ment of our students, an extensive series of tests was given to all;
college sophomores shortly before their graduation from the prepar

teachers’ colleges. The Co-operative Testing Bureau annually -¢
ducts a nation-wide sophomore testing program under the ausp ces
of the American Council on Education.. Our Synodical. institutions,
participated in the program for the spring of 1942 and 1943. ~Tw
different sets of test questions, closely parallel, however; were ‘give