Psychological Test, Retail Selling Inventory
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content: 1939
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Harry J.
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content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: Voelker, Paul H.
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content: The Retail Selling Inventory was coauthored by Harry J. Baker (1889-1981) and Paul H. Voelker (1907-2005) of the Detroit Public Schools. It appeared in 1939. According to a contemporary review, it was designed to select students who would do well in commercial courses and to assist in choosing employees who had not studied business. Baker, director of the psychological clinic of the Detroit Public Schools, had his bachelor’s degree, master’s, and PhD. from the University of Michigan. Voelker would serve as the divisional director of the Department of Special Education of the Detroit Public Schools from 1945 until at least 1965.
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content: Compare 1990.0034.056.
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content: References:
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content: Harry J. Baker, “An Experiment in the Education of Gifted Children,” <I>Exceptional Children</I>, 9 #4, 1943, pp. 112-120. This article indicates that Baker job and lists his degrees
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content: Detroit Public Schools, <I>Special Education for Handicapped Children</I>, Detroit: Board of Education of the City of Detroit, 1965 indicates that Paul H. Voelker was Divisional Director, Department of Special Education, Detroit Public Schools from 1945-1965.
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content: “On the Book Shelf,” <I>The Journal of Business Education</I>, 1942, 17 #8, p.41. This article includes a review of Retail Selling Inventory.
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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 David Gold
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.25
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content: 1989.0710
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content: 1989.0710.25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in