Sergeant Martinez administered tests to candidates to join the commission's police force, according to people with knowledge of how the commission operates.
In 1898 he joined the Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait (between New Guinea and Australia), administered tests of sensory functions to Melanesians, and became keenly interested in anthropological fieldwork.
In a classic 1960s demonstration of the power of expectations to create reality, Harvard psychologists Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson administered a test to a group of elementary school children that assessed the children's general intellectual ability.
In 2009, Judge Garaufis found that the city had administered tests that discriminated against black and Hispanic firefighter candidates, and last year he ruled that new firefighters could not be hired unless the city agreed to a hiring method proposed by the court.
Twice during that time, Rivera was taken to Reid headquarters, in Chicago, where a Reid employee named Michael Masokas administered polygraph tests.
One of the authors (Trudy Ann Bons) administered the tests in small groups.
I watched in Haiti as a nurse, Holdie Fleurilus, administered the vinegar test at a hospital and then removed a precancerous lesion from a 33-year-old health worker, perhaps saving her life.
When Aronson administered a math test to "fabulously good" undergraduates in their third year of calculus -- but prefaced it with a statement that the test had never shown a gender difference -- women's scores rocketed past men's, suggesting that the women's performance up to that point had been hampered by self-image and stereotype.
The state education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, has agreed to administer tests for teachers in August to help the city overcome a lack of certified teachers in failing schools.
In a discussion about a mental acuity test Dr. Relkin administered to Mrs. Astor, in which she responded that the similarity between "a poem and a statue" was that both are stationary, Mr. Marshall's lawyers asked Dr. Relkin whether it was possible she heard "a poem and a statute" and meant that both could be found on stationery.
Mr. Mills said setting goals and administering tests produces results that are far better than many people expect.
