Booklet, Guide for Administering the Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests
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content: 1948
name: label: publisher
content: World Book Company
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content: Stutsman, R.
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content: In her will, Lizzie Merrill-Palmer of Detroit left funds to establish an institution for the training of college-educated women in child care and mothering. Following her instructions, in 1920 the Merrill-Palmer School was established. It trained young college graduates in caring for preschool children. In 1924, Helen Thompson Wooley and her student Elizabeth Cleveland developed the Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests to assess the strengths and weaknesses of young children by examining them individually. Rachel Stutsman Ball (1894-1980) wrote a book about mental testing for young children that included instructions on how to use the test. These were published separately in this pamphlet, which was copyrighted by World Book Company in 1948.
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content: References:
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content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 32.
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content: Stutsman, R., <I>Mental Measurement of Preschool Children, with a Guide for the Administration of the Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests</I>, Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1931.
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content: Ciani, Kyle, “Training Young Women in the Service of Motherhood, Early Childhood Education at Detroit’s Merrill Palmer School (1920-1940),” <I>Michigan History Review</I>, 1998, 24, pp. 103-132.
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topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.084
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content: 1990.0034
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content: 1990.0034.084
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content: Booklet
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: .1 cm x 13.7 cm x 19.6 cm; 1/32 in x 5 13/32 in x 7 23/32 in