Psychological Tests, Progressive Achievement Tests - Advanced Battery. Form A & Form B
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content: 1937
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content: California Test Bureau
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content: Clark, Willis W.
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content: Tiegs, Ernest W.
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content: Ernest W. Tiegs (1891-1970), the coauthor of this test battery, was born in Wisconsin. He served as a principal and superintendent in the public schools of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota; and also did graduate work in education at the University of Minnesota, completing his M.A. in 1921 and his PhD. in 1927. He then went to the University of Southern California as a member of the faculty in education and head of the university college, the downtown division of USC. By 1945, Tiegs was the editor-in-chief of the California Test Bureau. He would later be affiliated with Los Angles State College (now California State University Los Angeles).
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content: Willis W. Clark (1895-1964), the other author, received his A.B. (1916), A.M. (1918) and doctorate of education (1941) from the University of Southern California. He held a variety of positions in the Los Angeles public schools and at USC. He developed a diagnostic test in fundamentals of arithmetic for the L.A. Schools, and his wife, Ethel M. Clark, set out to market it to school districts around the country. The following year, she received an order from the Kansas City schools, and the California Test Bureau was born. Both Tiegs and Willis Clark published their tests with the company, and would serve as administrators for it.
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content: These particular materials relate to the 1937 edition of the Progressive Achievement Tests – Advanced Battery, Form A and Form B. The test is intended for grades 9 through adults. In addition to the two forms of the test, materials include a manual, scoring sheets (six sheets), a record sheet, and related documentation.
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content: Compare 1989.0710.40.
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content: References:
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content: Ernest Walter Tiegs,<I>A Study of Common School Support in the State of New Jersey</I> M.A. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1921 – published in “Studies in Public School Finance: The East,” <I>Research Publications of the University of Minnesota</I>, Education Series No.2, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1923, pp. 160-210.
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content: Ernest W. Tiegs, <I>An Evaluation of Some Techniques of Teacher Selection</I>, PhD. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1927.
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content: U.S. Congress, <I>Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress</I>, Part I, vol. 109, Part 15, pp. 20274-20275.
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content: “U.S.C. Completes Faculty,” <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, August 14, 1927. The article lists new appointments at the University of Southern California. Ernest W. Tiegs of the Minneapolis public schools had been named assistant professor of education and head of university college.
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content: Mark Walsh, “Quiz Biz,” <I>Education Week</I>, June 16, 1999 (see https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1999/06/16/40ctb.h18.html). The article discusses the history of businesses marketing tests in the U.S.
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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: 1990.0034.095
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content: 1990.0034.095
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content: 1990.0034
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: .1 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 11 1/32 in x 11 1/32 in