Psychological Test, Stanford Achievement Test. Advanced Battery - Complete. Form D
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: Kelley, Truman L.
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content: Ruch, Giles M.
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content: Terman, Lewis M.
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content: World Book Company
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content: After their widespread use during World War I, experts increasingly used psychological tests as a tool to rank and sort people in such contexts as education and employment. The Stanford Achievement Test was written by Truman L. Kelley (1884-1961), Giles M. Ruch (1892-1943), and Lewis M. Terman (1877-1956). This version is the Advanced Battery – Complete, Form D. It was published by the World Book Company and was copyrighted in 1940. The test included questions about: paragraph meaning, word meaning, language usage, arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic computation, literature, social studies (two parts: I and II), elementary science, and spelling. The test is twenty-four pages long.
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content: Compare 1983.0168.11.
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content: References:
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content: For more on Terman, see John Carson, <I>The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics</I>, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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content: John C. Flanagan, “Truman Lee Kelley,” <I>Psychometrika</I> 26 (1961): 343–45.
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content: “Truman Kelley, 76, Taught at Harvard,”<I> New York Times</I>, May 3, 1961.
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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
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content: 1989.0710.26
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content: 1989.0710
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content: 1989.0710.26
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in