Psychological Test, General Electric Work Samples
name: label: maker
content: O'Connor, Johnson
label: publisher
content: Stevens Institute of Technology
notes: label: Description
content: This collection contains information related to the General Electric Work Samples. Documents in this collection often include marginalia and occasionally parts of the test have been completed. Many of the tests appear to be typed on a typewriter and not printed by a professional organization/publishing company, while others in this collection were copyrighted. (For example, Stevens Institute of Technology printed the “English Vocabulary, Worksample 95, Form AB” test, which was copyrighted in 1934 by Johnson O’Connor.) Some of the skills tested for include typing, number sense, spelling, clerical aptitude, mechanical aptitude, finger dexterity, tweezer dexterity, and group contact. Many of the documents provide extensive descriptions to the “administration” or test proctors on how to give the exams to the examinees. They also provide information on norms and scoring. The collection also contains an appendix that provides an interpretation of the worksample grade, cautioning that “science cannot predict the unfailing success of any individual. It can but name the chances of success or failure, based upon a statistical study of like cases from the past.”
label: Description
content: Johnson O’Connor is better known for his “wiggly block” test. For an example of it, and biographical information, see MA.316372.09. For a score sheet for another test by O’Connor, see 1989.0710.70.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316371.012
label: catalog number
content: 316371.012
label: accession number
content: 316371
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychological test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 28 cm; 8 21/32 in x 11 1/32 in