Psychological Test, Vineland Social Maturity Scale
date: label: date made
content: 1936
notes: label: Description
content: The Vineland Social Maturity Scale was distributed by The Psychological Corporation and was copyrighted by the Training School at Vineland in 1936, New Jersey Department of Research. Vineland was a “school” for “feebleminded” children, where Henry Herbert Goddard first began using intelligence tests to categorize students there in the early 1900s.
label: Description
content: This version of the test was the Experimental Form B (Revised 1/15/36). It contains 117 questions and is four pages long. The traits and abilities on the test begin with basic cognitive function and become increasingly complex. The test indicates that there is a manual of directions for scoring that is not contained in this collection.
label: Description
content: Compare 1983.00168.07 to1990.0034.051. See also 1990.0034.049, 1990.0034.050 and 1990.0034.052 through 1990.0034.054.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Leila Zenderland, Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Vineland
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Myer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0168.07
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0168.07
label: accession number
content: 1983.0168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in