Psychological Test, Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1925
name: label: maker
content: Ayres, L. P.
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content: Russell Sage Foundation
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content: This test sought to examine the ability of American children to spell the 1000 commonest English words. The author, Leonard P. Ayres, and his staff at Russell Sage Foundation in New York had found from examination of large numbers of business and personal letters that most correspondents used only about 2,000 English words, far fewer than the number whose spelling was commonly taught in schools. This test focused on this widely used vocabulary.
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content: For biographical information about Ayres, see his test of handwriting (1990.0034.088).
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content: References:
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content: Ayres, L.P., <I>A Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling</I>, New York: Division of Education, Russell Sage Foundation, 1915. A copy of this document digitized in worldcat gives the initial printing dateof 1915. The digitized reprint was from 1918.
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content: Hildreth, Gertrude, "New Light on the Spelling Problem," <I>Elementary English</I>, 1948, 25, # 4, pp. 201-07.
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content: “Review of ‘Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling’,” <I>Journal of Education</I>, 81, 1915, p. 636. This review describes the scale in some detail.
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content: “Why the American People Spell and Write Incorrectly,” <I>New York Times</I>, February 16, 1913.
label: Location
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.089
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.089
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 56 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 22 1/16 in x 13 25/32 in