Two Psychological Tests with Manual and Key, National Intelligence Tests. Scale A. Form 1 and Scale B. Form 1
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content: 1920
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content: World Book Company
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content: Haggerty, Melvin E.
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content: Terman, Lewis M.
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content: Thorndike, Edward L.
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content: Whipple, Guy Montrose
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content: Yerkes, Robert Mearns
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content: In the spring of 1919, the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation supplied the National Research Council with a grant of $25,000 dollars to prepare and standardize a group intelligence test for school use. A committee of five psychologists was appointed to do the work. The scales (denoted A and B) were designed for students in grades three through eight. They were adapted from tests administered by the U.S. Army during World War I. By 1920, two forms of each scale A and scale B, were available for sale by World Book Company of Yonkers, New York (not the encyclopedia publisher), with plans to release new versions every six months. Each scale included five different of tests and was designed to be administered in about thirty minutes.
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content: Materials available are Form 1 of Scale A, Form 1 of Scale B, a manual, and a key.
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content: The authors of the test were Melvin E. Haggerty (1875-1937) of the University of Minnesota, Lewis M. Terman (1877-1956) of Stanford University, Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949) of Columbia University, Guy M. Whipple (1876-1941) of the University of Michigan, and Robert M. Yerkes (1876-1956) of Yale University. Yerkes chaired the committee, just as he chaired the Committee on Psychological Classification of Recruits of the U.S. Army during World War I. Terman and Whipple had also served on that committee
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content: Reference:
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content: [National Intelligence Tests by R. M. Yerkes, M. E. Haggerty, L. M. Terman, E. L. Thorndike and G. M. Whipple], <I>The Elementary School Journal</I>, November 1920, 21 # 3, p. 239.
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content: Kevles, Daniel J. "Testing the Army's Intelligence: Psychologists and the Military in World War I." <I>The Journal of American History</I>, 1968, 55 # 3, pp. 565-81.
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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: 1990.0034.094
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content: 1990.0034.094
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content: 1990.0034
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content: Psychological Tests (2 With Manual And Key)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: .1 cm x 21.6 cm x 28 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 11 1/32 in