Psychological Tests with Manual and Report, Employee Aptitude Study
date: label: date made
content: 1956
name: label: maker
content: Grimsley, G.
label: maker
content: Ruch, F. L.
label: maker
content: Warren, N. D.
label: maker
content: Ford, J. S.
notes: label: Description
content: By the mid-twentieth century, industrial and organizational psychologists developed tests for businesses and governments to administer to prospective employees. To meet this market, in 1952 Stanford-trained psychologist and textbook author Floyd Leon Ruch (1903-1982) established Psychological Services, Inc., in Los Angeles. Ruch also remained on the faculty of the University of Southern California. His son, William W. Ruch, devoted his career of PSI. One set of tests sold by the company was this Employee Aptitude Survey. It includes ten multiple choice tests of skills ranging from verbal comprehension to space visualization to numerical ability. Test authors were Floyd L. Ruch, Glen Grimsley, Neil D. Warren, and James S. Ford. With the tests came an examiner’s manual and a spiral-bound technical report that listed the occupations tested and related scores. Each occupation is associated with only one sex, reflecting contemporary gender roles. All these materials are stored in a paper envelope.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Myer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3064.08
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3064.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Tests
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.7 cm x 23 cm x 30 cm; 21/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 11 13/16 in