Psychological Test, Pintner-Toops Revised Directions Test
name: label: maker
content: Pintner, R.
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content: C. H. Stoelting Company
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content: Rudolf Pintner (1884 -1942) and Herbert A. Toops (1895-1972) prepared this test of the ability to follow directions, which was published by C. H. Stoelting Company of Chicago. They sought to combine two tests of following directions (one deemed easy and one deemed hard) introduced in 1911 by R.S. Woodworth and F.L. Wells (see MA.316371.076). The Pintner-Toops test had only fifteen fill-in-the blank questions. These increased in difficulty in such a way that the test was suitable for both children and adults.
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content: Pintner, born in England, received a Master of Arts from the University of Edinburgh in 1906 and a PhD. from Leipzig University in 1913. He came to the United States in 1912. After a year at Toledo University in Ohio, he went to Ohio State University, and then, from 1921 until his death, was at Teachers College of Columbia University.
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content: Toops obtained his undergraduate (1916) and master’s (1917) degrees from Ohio State University and his doctorate from Columbia University (1921). He worked for the armed forces during World War I and at Teachers College of Columbia and then the University of Minnesota before returning to Ohio State University in1927, spending the remainder of his career there.
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content: References:
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content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 731.
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content: Pintner, R., & Toops, H. A., “A Revised Directions Test,” <I> Journal of Educational Psychology</I>, 1918, 9 #3, pp. 123–142. A copy of the Pintner-Toops test appears as an illustration here.
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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
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.150
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content: 1990.0034
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content: 1990.0034.150
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 21.7 cm x 28 cm; 8 17/32 in x 11 1/32 in