Psychological Test, Henderson Analysis of Interest
date: label: date made
content: 1950
name: label: maker
content: Henderson, R. W.
notes: label: Description
content: Robert William Henderson (1910-1976?) received his AB from Miami University (1932), worked as a high school teacher from 1932 until 1941, received his M.A. in education in 1937 from the University of Akron, and received his PhD. from the University of Kentucky (1949). He had a variety of government, consulting, and academic appointments.
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content: Henderson took out a copyright for this test in 1950. The first edition (1950) was published by Occupational Service Press of Akron. The second edition (also 1950) was published by William, Lynde, and Williams, an Ohio firm that would employ Henderson. The test was designed to find out whether high school students or adults might be interested in fourteen different types of work – business, clerical, accounting and statistics, persuasive, managerial, social science, physical science, biological science, engineering, art and music, teaching, writing, mechanical, and/or manual. Subjects were given a list showing forty groups of seven occupations and asked to choose the two in each group they would most prefer . A letter next to the occupation indicated where it fit in the fourteen categories.
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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. 314.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.087
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.087
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 16.6 cm x 18 cm; 1/32 in x 6 17/32 in x 7 3/32 in