Psychological Test, Vocational Interest Blank For Women
date: label: date made
content: 1933
name: label: author
content: Strong, Jr., Edward K.
notes: label: Description
content: After their widespread use during World War One, experts increasingly used psychological tests as a tool to rank and sort people in contexts including (but not limited to) education and employment. The Vocational Interest Blank for Women (form WA) was written by Edward K. Strong, Jr. (Professor of Psychology, Stanford University). The test is a booklet that is eight pages long and contains eight different parts. The first page contains blanks for the test-taker to record their name, age, sex, highest grade reached in school, marital status, and work history. Part I contains a list of 128 occupations where the test-taker should indicate how much they would like or dislike that occupation. Part II contains 88 different activities or “amusements” that the test-taker is supposed to indicate whether or not they enjoy. Part IV contains a list of 46 different “peculiarities of people” (which lists various traits and identities) that the test-taker should indicate whether they like or dislike. Part V contains a list of “order of preference of activities” where the test-taker was asked to rank their preferences. Page VI contains a list of the “comparison of interest between two items,” Part VII asks the test-taker to rate their “present abilities and characteristics,” and finally Part VIII asks about school subjects and whether the test-taker enjoyed certain subjects in school. The final page lists occupations and contains blank columns for the raw score, percentile, standard score, and rating, presumably where the test would be scored and the test-taker’s aptitude for different occupations ranked. In addition to providing insight into the history of testing, this test also gives information on gender norms and expectations during the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
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: 1983.0168.05
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0168.05
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: 21.3 cm x 27.4 cm; 8 3/8 in x 10 25/32 in