Psychological Test, Herring-Binet Test Score Sheet
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content: Letchworth Village Psychological Laboratory
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content: As a graduate student at Teachers College of Columbia University, John P. Herring (1882-1961) developed a new form IQ test, which could be administered to individual children more quickly than the Stanford-Binet. He recruited his fellow student Grace A. Taylor, who worked at Letchworth Village in upstate New York, to try out the test on some of the occupants there. This document relating to the test as it was used at Letchworth Village. It is undated, but probably later than the forms Taylor used.
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content: Herring used a series of thirty-eight tests which he divided into five groups [A through E]. Scores on the tests in Group A determined which further tests would be given.
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content: According to the published form of his dissertation, Herring was born in Massachusetts, had an undergraduate degree from Brown University and a Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and taught for a time in Seattle, Washington, before coming to Columbia. He would go on to a variety of academic appointments at universities in Ohio, North Carolina, the state of Washington, and California.
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content: References:
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content: “In Memorium,” <I> Brown Alumni Monthly</I>, 62 #2, November, 1961, p. 50.
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content: Herring, J. P., <I>Herring Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests & Verbal & Abstract Elements in Intelligence Examinations</I>, New York City: Teachers College, 1924.
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content: Herring, J.P., <I>Herring Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests</I>, Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1922. The 1923 manual for this test is available online (accessed April 8, 2020) and describes the test in detail.
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content: “Herring Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests,” <I>The Elementary School Journal</I>, 1922, 3:235-236. This column on recent “educational writings” quotes a description of the test given by the author.
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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
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content: 1990.0034.023
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content: 1990.0034.023
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content: 1990.0034
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: .1 cm x 20.8 cm x 28.3 cm; 1/32 in x 8 3/16 in x 11 5/32 in