Documentation, Character Education Inquiry
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924-1927
name: label: maker
content: Columbia University. Teachers College
notes: label: Description
content: Between 1924 and 1927, Mark A. May and the Reverend Hugh Hartshorne conducted the Character Education Inquiry under the direction of E.L. Thorndike. This resulted in three volumes on the empirical nature of moral behavior among school children called the Character Education Inquiry. These include standardized tests (Attitude Toward War, prepared by D.D. Droba, part of the the Measurement of Social Attitudes edited by Thurstone), copyrighted tests (including those from C.H. Stoelting, Co, 1927; Institute of Educational Research, Teachers College, Columbia, 1926 and 1927) and early drafts of tests. Drafts of materials in this collection provide insight into the construction of the tests including data on their content and reliability. Many of the tests include handwritten notes, and occasionally provide calculations (charts and graphs) with data on the results of the tests. The folder also includes a reading list for “Character Education: Yale Divinity School, 1938 – 1939.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William W. May
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.3081.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 1992.3081
label: catalog number
content: 1992.3081.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Set Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 23.5 cm x 31.6 cm; 25/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 12 7/16 in