The use of vocational tests in the selection of a vocation / by Charles S. Myers.

  • Myers, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1873-1946.
Date:
1924
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    FRIDAY, MARCH • 21, 1924. com munications for the Society should be addressed to the Secretary, John Street, Adelphi, W.C NOTICES . NEXT WEEK. Monday, March 24th, at 8 p.m. (Cobb Lecture). Dr. T. Slater Price, Director of Research, British Photographic Research Association, “ Certain Fundamental Prob¬ lems in Photography.” (Lecture I.) Wednesday, March 26th, at 8 p.m. (Ordinary Meeting.) Neal Green, “ The Fishing Industry and Its By-Products,” Professor E. W. Macbride, D.Sc., F.R.S., will preside. Further particulars of the Society’s meet¬ ings will be found at the end of this number. FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. Wednesday, March 12th, 1924 ; Sir Herbert Jackson, K.B.E., F.R.S., in the Chair. The following candidates were proposed for election as Fellows of the Society :— Campbell, Andrew, Beckenham, Kent. Sharp, Mrs. Katharine Dooris, London, Ohio, U.S.A. Williams, Professor Clement Clarence, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. The following candidates were duly elected Fellows of the Society :— Bruce, Oswald B., Weston-super-Mare. Haunz, Charles F., M.Am.Chem.S., Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. Howgrave, Arthur Atherfold, London. Porro, Thomas Joseph, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. Shallenberger, Professor Garvin Dennis, Montana, U.S.A, Vaid, Bakhshi Dina Nath, Rawal Pindi, India. A lecture on “ Personal Recollections of Some Notable Scientific Men ” was delivered by Mr. Alan A. Campbell Swinton, F.R.S., late Chairman of Council. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. -«♦- TWELFTH ORDINARY MEETING. Wednesday, February 27th, 1924. Sir Robert Blair, LL.D. (Education Officer, London County Council), in the Chair. The Chairman, in introducing the lecturer, said Dr. Myers was now recognised, both in this oountry and abroad, as the leading psychologist in Great Britain. He was at one time Professor of Psychology at King’s College, London; and, later. Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge. At Cambridge his initiative and generosity secured the building and equipment of the new Psychological Laboratory; and for some time he was its director. During the War he became Consulting Psycho- logist to the British Expeditionary Force, serving as a lieutenant-colonel in the R.A.M.C. The War turned his interest and attention from problems of pure or abstract psychology to its more practical applications, particularly in medicine and industry. On the conclusion of the war, by enlisting the interest and support of eminent men of business and science in the new possibilities of psychological methods, he founded the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and shortly afterwards gave up his post at Cambridge to become the Direc¬ tor of that Institute. As its Director, and as a member of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board (a Government Department under the Privy Council) he had organised and assisted in many investigations in industrial psychology. Research students and psychological investigators, working under his guidance, had carried out numerous fruitful experiments and enquiries in large firms throughout various parts of the country, and, more recently, in trade and other schools in London and elsewhere. He had of late become especially interested in the possibility of vocational guidance for children leaving schools; and last January obtained from the Carnegie Trustees a grant of £6,000 for carrying out an experimental investiga¬ tion into the practicability of such a scheme. The following paper was read :— THE USE OF VOCATIONAL TESTS IN THE SELECTION OF A VOCATION. By Charles S. Myers, C.B.E., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Director of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. By “ vocational guidance ” is meant the advice given to the worker, based on systematic examination of his mental and bodily condition, as to the occupations for which he is fitted and unfitted. “ Vocational selection,” on the other hand, is the process of choosing, by such examination, those workers best fitted for the vacancies in