Group Examination Beta
date: label: Date made
content: 1918
name: label: maker
content: Office of the Surgeon General. Division of Psychology
notes: label: Description
content: At the time of World War I, American psychologists hoped to extend intelligence testing from children to adults. They persuaded the U.S. Army to test its recruits in order to weed out those mentally unfit for duty overseas. Tests were given to groups of soldiers, with paper and pencil replacing the puzzles and other objects used in earlier tests . Over 1.6 million soldiers took the exams. This 1918 form of the test was called the Army Beta Examination. It was designed for illiterates and those who spoke no English. Instructions were given by pantomime. In the portion of the test shown, inductees were asked to draw the missing part of the pictures.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Military
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0334.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0334
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0334.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: psychological test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 21.3 cm x 28 cm; 13/32 in x 8 3/8 in x 11 1/32 in