Psychological Test, California Test of Mental Maturity - Advanced Battery
date: label: date made
content: 1937
name: label: maker
content: Sullivan, Elizabeth T.
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content: Clark, Willis W.
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content: Tiegs, Ernest W.
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content: Elizabeth Sullivan, Willis W. Clark, and Ernest W. Tiegs devised the California Test of Mental Maturity—Advanced Battery. The Southern California School Book Depository, Ltd. published the test and copyrighted it in 1937. The Test Advisory Committee included Tiegs as well as J. Murray Lee (Director of Research, Burbank City Schools) and Willis W. Clark (Los Angeles County Schools). The cover page asked for information on the test taker’s age, grade, school, last birthday, gender, teacher, and date. It also includes a diagnostic profile to chart the pupil’s scores. There were sixteen different “tests” which aimed to evaluate memory (immediate recall, delayed recall), “spacial” relationships (sensing right and left, manipulation of areas, foresight in “spacial sit’ns”), reasoning (opposites, similarities, analogies, number series, numerical quantity, and inference), and vocabulary. Many of these tests were comprised entirely of pictures and thus were labeled as “non-language tests.” The intended audience for the test appears to be “advanced” students in grades nine through fourteen.
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content: For later versions of the test, see 1989.0710.56 and 1989.0710.57. For biographical information about Tiegs and Clark, see 1989.0710.41. See also 1990.0034.095.
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content: Elizabeth Teresa Sullivan (1877-1949) was born and raised in Los Angeles, and attended Cahenga School and Los Angles Normal School, She went on receive a B.A. from the University of California, an M.A. from Stanford, and a doctorate in from Columbia University (1922). Sullivan then returned to Los Angeles and assumed a variety of teaching, administrative, and advisory positions. She retired in 1944 as supervisor for psychology and educational research for the Los Angeles County Board of Education.
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content: Compare MA.316371.006 with 1946 versions of the California Test of Mental Maturity with numbers 1989.0710.56 and 1989.0710.57.
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content: References:
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content: Sullivan, Elizabeth T. <I>Mood in Relation to Performance</I>, PhD. Dissertation, 1922, Columbia University.
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content: “Veteran Woman Educator Dies: Services Set,” <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, November 1, 1949, p. 22.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Shakow
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: MA.316371.006
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content: 316371
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content: 316371.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychological test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 29.7 cm; 8 21/32 in x 11 11/16 in