Sheets, Toops Scoring Pad. Form 21
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Science Research Assoc. Inc.
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content: In the years following World War I, as the number of students taking psychological tests expanded and as data processing companies like IBM sought new markets for their equipment, more efficient forms for recording and scoring written psychological tests developed. Born and raised in Ohio, Herbert Anderson Toops (1895-1972) earned B.S. and B.A. from Ohio State University and was beginning graduate studies at the time of the outbreak of World War I. He became familiar with mass testing programs during that war, when he worked on trade tests in the U.S. Army. Afterward, he continued this research, writing a PhD. dissertation at Teachers College of Columbia University. In 1923, he returned to Ohio State to serve on the faculty, rising to the rank of professor in 1927 and staying until his retirement in 1965. Toops and his students also promoted the spread of aptitude testing in the Ohio schools. In the mid-1930s, Toops patented this score sheet for recording the results of tests. This example was sold by Science Research Associates.
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content: References:
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content: H.A. Toops, “Trade Tests in Education, <I>The Journal of Educational Research</I>, 1922, vol. 6, pp. 74-75.
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content: Herbert A. Toops, “Examination Conducting Device,” U.S. Patent 2,052,369, August 25, 1936.
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content: Herbert A. Toops Papers, Ohio State University Archives, Columbus, Ohio.
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 David Gold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.19
label: accession number
content: 1989.0710
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0710.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: set of sheets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in