A Factor Analysis of Mechanical Ability Tests  

Oleh:

Harrell, Willard

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Psychometrika: A Journal of Quantitative Psychology vol. 5 no. 1 (Mar. 1940), page 17-33.
Topik: Factor Analysis; Mechanical Ability Tests
Fulltext: A Factor Analysis of Mechanical Ability Tests.pdf (705.32KB)

Isi artikel

The intercorrelations of thirty-seven variables, including the Minnesota battery of “mechanical ability” tests, the seven MacQuarrie tests of “mechanical ability,” O'Connor's Wiggly blocks, and the Stenquist picture-matching test, were analyzed by Thurstone's centroid method. Five factors, Perceptual, Verbal, Youth, Manual Agility, and Spatial, were taken out. Factors prominent in so-called mechanical ability tests are the Spatial and Perceptual ones with Mac-Quarrie's dotting test significantly high in the Manual Agility factor. Each of the factors can be measured with group pencil-and-paper tests.

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