Psychological Test with Directions, Monroe's Standardized Silent Reading Test Revised
date: label: date made
content: 1940
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content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: Monroe, Walter Scott
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content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: Born in Kansas, Walter Scott Monroe (1882-1961) graduated from the University of Missouri about 1906 and received his PhD. from the University of Chicago for a study of the history of arithmetic teaching in the United States. He spent some time at Indiana University and at the Kansas State Normal School and from 1919 was on the faculty in education at the University of Illinois. He also was director of educational research there from 1921 to 1947.
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content: The initial form of Monroe’s Standardized Silent Reading Tests was based on the Kansas Silent Reading Tests. This is a revised form, published by Public School Publishing Company in 1921. It was taken in 1940.
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content: The test has 21 bits of text. Under each one are five words. Those taking the test were to draw a line under the word that best described a mood or condition describedpresented in the text.
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content: Compare MA.316371.045.
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content: References:
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content: Monroe, W.S., “Development of Arithmetic as a School Subject,” <I>United States Bureau of Education Bulletin</I>, #10, 1917.
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content: Monroe, W. S., <I>A Report of the Use of the Courtis Standard Research Tests in Arithmetic in Twenty-four Cities</I>, Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1915.
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content: Monroe, W. S., “Monroe’s Standardized Silent Reading Tests,” <I>Journal of Educational Psychology</I>, 1918, 9, pp. 303-312.
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content: Currently not on view
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
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.130
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content: 1990.0034
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content: 1990.0034.130
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content: Psychological Test With Directions
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.3 cm x 23 cm; 6 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in