Book, The Maze Test and Mental Differences
date: label: date made
content: 1933
name: label: author
content: Porteus, Stanley D.
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content: Stanley D. Porteus (1883-1972) was born in Australia and taught in schools there. By 1914 he was head of the Victoria Education Department Special School in Melbourne. In this capacity he wrote several papers on testing the capabilities of children in his charge and developed the first form of what came to be called the Porteus maze test. In 1918, Porteus moved to the United States to work as a psychologist at the Vineland Training School in Vineland, New Jersey. A revised version of his test appeared in 1919 (see MA.316372.34), and would be published, with alterations over the years, by C.H. Stoelting Company of Chicago. For the 1922 Stoelting version of the Vineland test, see MA.316372.16.
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content: In 1922, Porteus took a teaching position at the University of Hawaii, where he remained until his retirement in 1948. While in this post, Porteus published this volume about the maze test and mental differences – it was still published in Vineland. The volume describes the development and use of the Porteus maze test in Australia, New Jersey, and Hawaii.
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content: References:
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content: Porteus, Stanley D. and the Training School at Vineland. Porteus Tests - the Vineland Revision, [Vineland, N. J., 1919].
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content: Porteus, Stanley D. The Validity of the Porteus Maze Test. Journal of Educational Psychology, 30(3), 1939, pp. 172–178.
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content: C.H. Stoelting Co., Apparatus, Tests and Supplies , Chicago; Stoelting, 1936, p. 125.
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content: Porteus, Stanley D. A Psychologist of Sorts: The Autobiography and Publications of the Inventor of the Porteus Maze Tests, Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1969.
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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.316372.48
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content: 316372.48
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content: 316372
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