Psychological Test, Group Intelligence Test for School Entrants or for Assignment to A and B Classes
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Kansas State Teachers College
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content: Vincent, L. E.
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content: Cole, L. W.
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content: This test was intended to divide children entering a first grade class into two groups according to their intelligence. According to the object, it was the work of L.W. Cole and Leona E. Vincent, and published by the Bureau of Measurements and Standards of the State Normal School in Emporia, Kansas (now Emporia State University in the same location). This copy is of the fifteenth edition of the test, copyrighted by Lawrence W. Cole in 1924. It consists of tests involving such items as object recognition, discrimination of form, following directions, and tracing a maze
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content: Ohio-born Lawrence Wooster Cole (1870-1946) attended college in southwestern Kansas and then the University of Oklahoma, graduating from the latter in 1899. He then headed the Preparatory Department at Oklahoma, taking some time off for doctoral work in psychology at Harvard University (1910). His dissertation was on the intelligence of raccoons. Cole took an appointment at the University of Colorado that year, where he established the department of psychology.
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content: Leona E. Vincent (known also as Elizabeth Lee Vincent) lived from 1897 to 1974. Born in Colorado, she received her undergraduate (1919) and master’s (1921) degrees at the University of Colorado and served as an instructor on the faculty there from 1919 to 1922. She then did graduate work at Teachers College of Columbia University, completing her PhD. in 1924. Vincent spent twenty years in the department of psychology in the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit before moving to Cornell University, where she became dean of the New York State College of Home Economics. She then spent some time as professor of child development at the Pennsylvania College for Women.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Primary Education</I>, September, 1922, 30 #7, p. 467.
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content: Doherty, M. and J. MacLatchly, under the direction of B. R. Buckingham, “Bibliography of Educational and Psychological Tests and Measurements,” <I>Bureau of Education Bulletin</I>, 23, 1924, 55, pp. 211-212.
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content: Levy, David W., <I>The University of Oklahoma: A History</I>, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005, 1, pp. 66-69.
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content: Heckman, S.B., “A Comparative Study of Group Intelligence Tests Applicable to Children of Kindergarten Age,” in <I>Contributions to Education</I>, J.C. Bell, ed., 1924, 1, pp. 17-44.
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content: Trabue, M. R. "A Select List of Standard Tests," <I>The High School Journal</I>, 1923, 6, # 7, p. 192.
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content: Vincent, Leona, <I>A Study of Intelligence Test Elements</I>, PhD. Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1924. This was published that year by Teacher’s College and biographical information about Vincent’s early life is available there (p. 37), as well as an indication that she also went under the name of Elizabeth Lee Vincent.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.155
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content: 1990.0034.155
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content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 29.6 cm; 8 27/32 in x 11 21/32 in