Book, A Manual of Individual Mental Tests and Testing
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content: 1927
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content: Healy, William
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content: Shimberg, Myra E.
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content: Bronner, Augusta Fox
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content: Lowe, Gladys M.
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content: The authors of this manual sought to “bring together and to some extent systematize and make available many valuable tests, some of them little known” (p. 10). Chapters discuss practical procedures for testing, several different types of test (in individual chapters), interpretation of these types of test (again in individual chapters), and other fields of testing. An appendix lists the names of publishers of test material. The publication was sponsored by the Judge Baker Foundation, though published by Little, Brown, and Company.
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content: The four coauthors, in the order their names appear, were Augusta Fox Bronner (1881-1966), William Healy (1869-1963), Gladys M. Lowe [Anderson] (1899-1965), and Myra E. Shimberg (1901-1977). Bronner, a psychologist by training, and Healy, a physician and psychiatrist, had started working together at the Chicago Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, which is considered by some to be the first child guidance clinic. They then moved to direct the Judge Baker Foundation (later the Judge Baker Guidance Center) in Boston, Massachusetts. Shimberg, who had her doctorate from Columbia University, was in the research department at the Judge Baker. Lowe, who had her B.A. from the University of Tennessee and her M.A. from the University of Kentucky, also was a psychologist there – she would earn her doctorate from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and move on to other projects.
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content: For objects relating to earlier work of William Healy, see 1990.0570.02 and 1990.0570.03.
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content: References:
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content: Gault, Robert H. "The Judge Baker Foundation." <I>Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology</I>, 1917, 8, #2, 1917, pp.165-66.
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content: Squires, Paul C. <I>The American Journal of Psychology</I>, 1928, 40 # 2, 1928, p. 323
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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.316372.46
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content: 316372.46
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content: 316372
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content: book