The Minnesota Engineering Analogies Test

Abstract

A 90-item engineering analogies test was constructed and administered to 203 engineering seniors. After item analysis (the external criterion was the over-all honor-point average, the internal criterion was an accuracy index, rights divided by wrongs), 63 items were administered to 53 graduate engineering students. Odd-even reliability was .86. The graduate students did better than the seniors, and within the graduate group third year students did better than first and second year students, so the author concludes that the test is useful in assessing engineering abilities. 20 references. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)