Psychological Test, American Council on Education Psychological Examination for College Freshmen. 1943 Edition
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content: 1943
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content: American Council on Education
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content: Thurstone, Thelma G.
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content: Thurstone, L. L.
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content: Chicago-born Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955) received an engineering degree (1912) from Cornell University, worked briefly in Thomas A. Edison’s laboratory, and then went to the University of Minnesota as an instructor in engineering. He took his first psychology courses there and decided to do graduate work in the subject at the University of Chicago. While working on his doctorate, he began teaching at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Missouri-born Thelma Gwinn (1897-1993) did undergraduate work at the University of Missouri (1917, 1920) and received her AM from Carnegie (1923). She then went to the University of Chicago for her doctorate. By the fall of 1924, Thurstone had finished his doctorate, married Gwinn, and accepted a faculty position at the University of Chicago, where he would stay until his retirement in 1952. Gwinn completed her PhD. in 1926 and devoted considerable time to preparing an intelligence test for administered to college freshmen, which was published annually by the American Council on Education from 1924 to 1954. This is the 1943 edition of that test.
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content: After L.L. Thurstone’s retirement, the couple moved to North Carolina, where they both received appointments at the Psychometric Laboratory of the University of North Carolina.
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content: On other tests administered by the American Council on Education, and the later history of the organization, see 1989.0710.62.
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content: References:
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content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 728.
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content: Guilford, J. P., “Louis Leon Thurstone 1887-1955,” <I>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</I>, 1957, pp. 349-382.
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content: Gulliksen, H., “Louis Leon Thurstone, Experimental and Mathematical Psychologist,” <I>American Psychologist </I>, 1968, 23, pp. 786-802.
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content: Held, Lisa. “Profile of Thelma Thurstone,” in A. Rutherford (ed.), <I>Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive</I>, 2010. Accessed May 14, 2020.
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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: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1990.0034.166
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content: 1990.0034.166
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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: 21.3 cm x 27.4 cm; 8 3/8 in x 10 25/32 in