Psychlogical Test, Adjustment Questionnaire Form A
date: label: date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: Symonds, Percival Mallon
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content: Columbia University. Teachers College
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content: Percival Mallon Symonds copyrighted this questionnaire in 1932 – it is Form A of the test. It asks a student some 150 yes-no questions about his or her adjustment to the curriculum, to school social life, to school administrators, to teachers, to other pupils, to home and family, and to life generally. A complementary examination (not here) asked others to rate the student. The purpose of the tests was to identify those needing guidance, but not to diagnose the source of problems. They are among the first standardized personality questionnaires published for use in schools.
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content: Massachusetts-born Symonds (1893-1960) received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1915) and his A.M. (1920) and PhD. (1923) from Columbia University. He taught at Teachers College of Columbia from 1924 until his retirement in 1958. His textbooks and tests related to such areas as school, clinical, and educational psychology.
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content: References:
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content: Fagen, T. and P.G. Warden, <I>Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology</I>, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, pp. 380-381.
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content: Symonds, P.M. and C.E. Jackson, “An Adjustment Survey,” <I>Journal of Educational Research</I>, 1930, 21 #5, pp. 321-330.
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content: Symonds, P.M. and C.E. Jackson, <I>Measurement of the Personality Adjustment of High school Pupils</I>, New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935.
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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 Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.171
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content: 1990.0034.171
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content: 1990.0034
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content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 15.3 cm x 23 cm; 6 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in