Psychological Test, A Test in Civic Action
name: label: author
content: Wilson, H. E.
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content: Hill, Howard C.
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content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: Howard C. Hill (1878-1940) and Howard E. Wilson (1901-1966) developed this test of twenty multiple choice questions for students in grades six through twelve.Questions describe situations for which government intervention is appropriate, and the student is asked to select from among four choices the agency that should be consulted. This copy of the test is undated, although it was advertised as a relatively new product in 1930.
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content: For biographical information about Hill, see 1990.0034.152. Illinois-born Wilson attended the University of Illinois briefly before obtaining his undergraduate degree (1923) and master’s (1928) from the University of Chicago. He then went on to Harvard University where he earned his doctorate in education (1931), writing his dissertation on social studies in the junior high school. Wilson taught school during his years a graduate student, including time at the Lincoln School where Hill taught. He went on to serve on the faculty of the Harvard school of education and then, in 1957, became dean of the school of education at the University of Southern California.
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content: References:
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content: Holmes, Roger Franklin, <I>Inventory Test of American Government and Politics for High School Seniors</I>, M.A. Dissertation, Boston University, 1934, p. 30-32.
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content: "[Advertisement – Public School Publishing Company]," <I>The Journal of Educational Research</I>, 1930, 22 # 4, front matter. [Accessed May 11, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/27525237].
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content: "Howard Eugene Wilson, Education: Los Angeles," In memoriam, May 1969, Berkeley: University of California, Academic Senate. See
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content: University of California (System) Academic Senate, “1969, University of California, In Memorium,” UC History Digital Archives. University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
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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: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.153
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content: 1990.0034.153
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content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.3 cm x 23 cm; 6 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in