Psychological Tests, Detroit Tests
name: label: author
content: Baker, Harry J.
label: publisher
content: Public School Publishing Company
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content: The folder for the Detroit Intelligence Tests has been assigned eight subindex numbers:
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content: 316371.09.01: This pamphlet is entitled the “Detroit Intelligence Tests (Primary, Alpha, and Advanced): Instructions for filling out Record Sheet (a) Individual Record.” The cover provides instructions to educators and superintendents on how to fill out the charts. The inside of the pamphlet contains a chart with 35 spaces to record the pupil’s name, chronological age, score, rating, and her or his class record. There is also a “Tear-Off Sheet,” with instructions to “detach and send” to the Public School Publishing Company in Bloomington, Ill.
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content: 316371.09.02: This pamphlet is entitled, “Manual of Directions and Teacher’s Handbook.” It provides information on the Detroit Alpha Intelligence Test, Forms M and R for Grades 5 to 9. It is sixteen pages long. The cover page provides information on the testing conditions the proctor should cultivate (a quiet room, use pencils and not pens, have a reliable stop watch, having a ‘calm and easy manner’ when proctoring the exam.) The first page also sets out the expectation that the test proctor had received prior “training courses in testing.” Finally, the author (Harry J. Baker) recognizes Carl G. Beck, Fred Decker, Hayden Gallagher, and Claude L. Kniffen, and the “mental examiners of the Detroit Psychological Clinic” for their help preparing the exam.
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content: The next section is entitled “Test Procedure” and has a script for the proctor. Other sections are entitled General Instructions for Scoring, Special Instructions for Scoring, Letter Rating, Use of Test Results, Special Features of the Detroit Intelligence Tests, and Conclusion. This pamphlet would be useful for anybody who is interested in the history of mental testing and provides insight into the author’s ideas about intelligence and the possibilities and limitations of using intelligence to understand learning.
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content: 316371.09.03: This pamphlet is entitled, “Manual of Directions and Teacher’s Handbook.” It provides information on the Detroit Alpha Intelligence Test, Forms C and D for Grades 2 to 4. Compare to object 316371.09.02, with the exception of the section on the Test Procedure which are tailored to Forms C and D.
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content: 316371.09.04: This single, double sided sheet has the answer key for Form C on one side and Form D on the other side for the Detroit Primary Intelligence Test. It was published by the Public School Publishing Company of Bloomington, Ill. The instructions suggest that the simplest way to score the exams was to “take an unused copy of the test and to mark on it the correct object, number, word, etc., in some conspicuous color, using the correct answers below as a guide.” The answer key provides answers in list form for seven parts of the exam.
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content: 316371.09.05: This is the Answer Key for the Detroit Alpha Intelligence Test, Form R and Form M, by Harry J. Baker. It is double sided and has the answers for Form R on one side and Form M on the other. It suggests that the “simplest way to score this test is to take an unused copy of the test and to mark which should be written in the parenthesis in Parts 1,2,3,5, and 7, and the numbers and letters which should be inserted in Parts 4,6, and 8…” The answer key provides answers in chart form for the eight parts of the exam.
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content: 316371.09.06: This pamphlet is entitled the “Detroit Intelligence Tests (Primary, Alpha, and Advanced): Instructions for filling out Record Sheet (a) Individual Record.” The cover provides instructions to educators and superintendents on how to fill out the charts. The inside is a chart with 35 spaces to record the pupil’s name, chronological age, score, rating, as well as the class record. There is also a “Tear-Off Sheet,” with instructions to “detach and send” to the Public School Publishing Company in Bloomington, Illinois. Compare to object 316371.09.01.
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content: 316371.09.07: This pamphlet is entitled, “Manual of Directions and Teacher’s Handbook.” It provides information on the Detroit Alpha Intelligence Test, Forms V and W for High School and College. Compare to object 316371.09.02; however, one major difference is that the section entitled Letter Ratings provides additional charts detailing approximate age score equivalents and tentative letter ratings for forms V and W. The later is dated for January, 1926.
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content: 316371.09.08: This is the Answer Key for the Detroit Advanced Intelligence Test, Forms W and V, by Harry J. Baker. The instructions recommend that “the simplest way to score this test is to take an unused copy of the test and to mark on it the correct answers in some conspicuous color.” It provides answers in chart form for all eight parts of the test. One side has information for Form V, the other side has information for Form W.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316371.009
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content: 316371.009
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content: 316371
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