Psychological Test, General Intelligence, Operations of Arithmetic and Silent Reading
date: label: date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Buckingham, B. R.
label: maker
content: Monroe, Walter Scott
notes: label: Description
content: This collection of tests for students in grades six, seven and eight is an early example of a paper and pencil standardized examination for school children. Included (printed to be read going one direction) are seven tests collectively designed to measure general intelligence. They include multiple choice tests of analogies, arithmetic word problems, vocabulary, matching symbols to numerals (called substitution), verbal ingenuity, arithmetical ingenuity, and synonyms and antonyms. A test of silent reading ability and seven tests of operations of arithmetic are printed to be read going in the other direction.
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content: These tests were developed at the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Illinois by Walter S. Monroe and B. R. Buckingham. They were published by The Public School Publishing Company of Bloomington, Illinois, and also are known as the Illinois Examination. This version is copyrighted 1920.
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content: This example of the test is from the collection of clinical psychologist David Shakow.
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content: The test is glued to an orange piece of cardboard.
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content: Reference:
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content: Edward H. Cameron, <I>Psychology and the School</I>, New York: Century Company, 1921, pp. 317–334.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Bloomington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
label: Subject
content: Psychology
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
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content: Gift of David Shakow
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316371.045
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content: 316371.045
label: accession number
content: 316371
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychological test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 14.9 cm x .1 cm; 8 27/32 in x 5 7/8 in x 1/32 in