Psychological Test, Sentence Vocabulary Scale. Series 3A
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: publisher
content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: Holley, Charles Elmer
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content: This test lists seventy incomplete sentences and, for each sentence, four words. A student was to underline the word that would make the complete sentence “true.” The test was designed for use in grades three through eight and is Form 3A (there also was a 3B). The Public School Publishing Company of Bloomington, Ill., published it.
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content: The author, Charles Elmer Holley (1887-1969) was born in Illinois and received his undergraduate degree (1912), M.A. (1913) and PhD. (1915) from the University of Illinois. He then joined the faculty in education and psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University and went on to a variety of positions.
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content: For closely related materials, see MA.316371.023.
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content: Reference:
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content: Pratt, Candice, "Eminent Educators."<I>The Journal of Education</I>, 1934, 117 # 6 p. 165. Pratt states that Holley was active in the metal testing program in World War I, had taught in seven states, and was in 1934 heading up a program to train teachers for adult classes and chair the curriculum committee under the Emergency Education program in Los Angeles, California.
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.159
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.159
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.7 cm x 28 cm; 8 17/32 in x 11 1/32 in