Sheet, Second Grade Attainment Scale Record and Impression
name: label: author
content: Pressey, L. W.
label: publisher
content: Public School Publishing Company
notes: label: Description
content: As an undergraduate at Vassar College, Luella W. Cole (1893-1970) studied psychology. Sidney L. Pressey (1888-1979) got his undergraduate degree at Williams College and then was admitted to Harvard University for graduate work. In 1916 and 1917 they met pursuing practical training as interns at Boston Psychopathic Hospital (Cole would be hired as a case worker there). The two married in 1918 and went to Indiana University where Pressey joined the faculty and Cole was a graduate student – she completed her PhD. They would both continue their careers at Ohio State University.
label: Description
content: While in Indiana, Luella Cole Pressey prepared an achievement scale for second grade students. It had separate short tests for spelling, speed of reading, vocabulary, addition and subtraction. Initially the test was distributed by Indiana University, with a form in 1920 and a revised form in 1922. This example of the score sheet and class record sheet for that test (there is no example of the test) was sold by Public School Publishing Company of Bloomington, Indiana, as a test of intelligence.
label: Description
content: For directions for the test and references, see 1990.0034.138.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.139
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.139
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 m x 28 cm; 70 7/8 ft x 11 1/32 in